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" Mir Jamaluddin Anju, of Anju, belongs to the Sayyids of Shiraz, 

 who trace their descent to Qasiin arrasi ibn i Hasan ibn i Ibrahim i 

 Tabatiba i Husaini. Mir Shah Mahmud and Mir Shah Abu Turab, 

 two later members of this renowned family, were appointed during the 

 reign of Shah Talimasp i (Jafawi, at the request of the Chief Justice of 

 Persia, Mir Shamsuddin i Asadullah of Sinister, the first as Shaikh- 

 ulislam of Persia, and the second as Qazi-lquzat. Mir Jamaluddin is 

 one of their cousins. He went to the Dekhan, the Kings of which 

 had frequently intermarried with the Anjiis.* Afterwards he entered 

 Akbar's service, and, in the thirtieth year, was appointed a commander 

 of six hundred. In the fortieth year of Akbar's reign, he was promoted 

 to the rank of a Hazari. It is said that in the end of Akbar's reign he 

 was a commander of three thousand.f When in the forty-fifth year of 

 the emperor's reign, the fort of Asir had been conquered, 'Adil Shah, king 

 of Bijapur, wished to enter into a matrimonial alliance with Akbar, 

 and offered his daughter to Prince Danyal. To settle matters, Akbar 

 despatched the Mir to the Dekhan, who, in A. H. 1013, after making, 

 near Pattan, the necessary preparations for the marriage feast, handed 

 over the bride to Prince Danyal. After this he repaired to Agra,$ in 

 order to lay the tribute and the presents before the emperor, the best 

 of all which up to that time had come from the Dekhan." 



" As the Mir had always been a particular friend of Prince Salim 

 (Jahangir), he was promoted after the prince's accession to the post 

 of a Chahar Hazari, and obtained the privilege of the naqqarah and 

 the flag.§ When Prince Khusrau (Salim's son) rebelled, the Mir re- 

 ceived the order, to effect an understanding by offering Khusrau 



* So also Firishtah. 



f If this is correct, it must have been after Abalfazl's death. 



j Accompanied by the historian Firishtah. 



§ To sound the naqqarah, and to have a flag carried before oneself, was a 

 distinction only given to great amirs. The aurang, chatr, saiban and kaukabah 

 are reserved to kings. Vide AA. p. 45. 



