1869.] JBaddoni and his Works. 137 



Deprived as he now was of his income, Badaoni was soon forced 

 to repent his carelessness and disobedience. He hastened to Akbar's 

 camp at Bhambar, near the frontier of Kashmir, which he reached 

 during the last month of the year 999 (p. 383). " Hakim Humain," 

 he relates, " reported my arrival to His Majesty, and said, I 

 was anxious to pay my respects. The Emperor asked, how long I 

 had overstayed my leave. Humam said, for five months ; and when 

 the Emperor enquired after the reason of my absence, the doctor said 

 that I had been ill, and that I had brought with me a representation 

 signed by several nobles of Badaon, and also a certificate by Hakim 

 'Ain ul Mulk of Dihli. 



His Majesty read through the papers, and said, " No, this sickness 

 does not last five months." He would not allow me to attend the 

 darbar. So I had to run about in the camp which the Emperor left 

 at Bahtas in charge of Prince Danyal, whilst he himself went to 

 Kashmir. Lonely and sorry, disappointed and aggrieved as I was, I 

 read through the Hign i Hagin [a famous prayer book used all over 

 the East], and fortified myself by repeating daily the Qac,idah i 

 Burdah till, at last, after five months when the Emperor returned 

 from Kashmir, matters began to look up. He had expressed the wish 

 to have a Persian translation of the great Historical work by Bashid, 

 entitled Jdmi', and some true and kindhearted friends, as Nizamud- 

 din and others, mentioned privately my name to His Majesty, and I 

 was, at last, at Labor allowed to attend at Court (17th Babi' I, 1000)." 



The state of Badaoni's mind whilst 'running about in Danyal's 

 camp', may be seen from Faizi's letter of recommendation to Akbar, 

 which, however, arrived too late. Faizi, in Shawwal 999, had been 

 sent, on a political mission, to Bajah 'Ali Khan, ruler of Asir and 

 Burhanpur, and he had afterwards gone to Burhan ul Mulk of Ahmad- 

 nagar, to which place Badaoni, from Bhambar, had written, requesting 

 him to intercede in his behalf. Faizi's reply was dated Jumada 

 I, 1000, at which time Badaoni was already restored. But 'Abdul 

 Qadir shewed Faizi's letter at Lahor to Akbar; for he says that Akbar 

 ordered Abulfazl to enter the letter, which is a model of a letter of 

 recommendation, in the Akbarnamah.* 



* Badaoni also gives a copy of the letter under his biographical notice of 

 Faizi (III, 303). The letter has been (indifferently) translated by Sir H. 



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