1869. J Translations from the Tdrikh i FLrhz ShdJii. 187 



Although Nucrat Khan was Naib i mulk, during the first year he was 

 made Kotwal, while Malik Fakhruddin Kiichi obtained the post of 

 Dadbeg i hazrat,* Zafar Khan became the ' Arzimamalik,f Malik 'Abaji 

 Jalali [i. e., who had served under Jalaluddin] the Akhurbeg, and Malik 

 Hiranmar, the Naib Barbeg. Such an assemblage of Khans and Maliks 

 both of the Jalali and 'Alai party was thus congregated at the Sultan's 

 Court, as could never have been witnessed in former times. 



Malik 'Alaulmulk, the compiler's uncle, was appointed to Karah 

 and Audh during the first year of his reign, and Malik Jiina 

 received his old post of Naib Vakildar, while Muayyidulmulk the 

 compiler's father, was given the place of Naib and Khwajahship of 

 Baran. Thus were all the onerous duties and important situations 

 committed to the charge of able, eminent, and experienced persons, 

 and Dehli as well as all other parts of the country became a rose 

 garden and a pasture. 



Estates were then bestowed on each Malik, J grants made to 

 religious communities, and lands, pensions, and gratuities lavished on 

 all such as had just claims to them ; while a considerable increase was 

 added to those already in existence. 



[To the people he gave new employments.] The people conse- 

 quently grew so enamoured of gold, that the mention of Sultan 

 'Alauddin's base deed, and his ungrateful treachery never crossed 

 any one's lips, and naught was left to mankind but to revel in gaiety. 



In the first year of this reign moreover, the retainers of 'Alauddin, 

 both new and old, had reached a vast number, yet all of them received 

 donations of [twelve and] six months' salary in hard cash ; and 

 during that year folks of all classes both high and low lived in such 

 ease and affluence, that I never recollect seeing in any age or period 

 such perfect happiness and contentment, nor can those who are of much 

 riper years than I recal such to remembrance, 



* I. e., the Dadbeg of the residence of the emperor, as opposed to the office 

 of qdzi i laslikar. The office corresponds to that of the Mir 'Adl under the 

 Mughnls. For Kuchi the list of grandees (Ed. Bibl. Indica, p. 240) haa the 

 more usual Jund. 



f The 'Arz i Mamdlilc corresponds to the Mir 'Arz of the Mughuls, whose 

 office is defined in the Ain Akbari, p. 257. 



X Perhaps it would be correcter to say — Milks and Waqfs were bestowed on 

 such as were worthy of waqfs. The word amldk is the pi. of milk, not of malik. 

 Vide Ain i Akbari, p. 271. Soon after 'Alauddin resumed the milks and waqfs, as 

 Akbar did with the Sayurghals of his times. 



