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near to Kanauj, all the Mahrattas came out to meet him and prepared 
entertainments. After a stay of two days, he resumed his march to Far- 
rukhabéd. On reaching his destination he visited his father, and from him 
he received the house of Ja’far Khan as his dwelling. After this the 
Wazir came from Lakhnau to Kanauj; thence taking with him Mulhér 
Rao and Apa Sendhid, he moved by way of It4wah towards Delhi. 
Some time after this, Ahmad Khan sent Muhammad Jahan Khan to 
Delhi, to fetch his wife and family. Dulhin Begam accordingly returned to 
Farrukhabad. Then the Nawab’s brothers, brother’s sons, and chelas, with 
their families, great and small, and all the ryots, returned each to his own 
place of abode in the different quarters of the city. Sahib Begam, the 
widow of Kaim Khan, also returned and took up her abode in the fort of 
Amethi; and Maliya Begam, the Bibi Sahiba, occupied the Buland Mahal, 
which had formerly been in the possession of her son, Kaim Khan. 
Ahmad Khan marries again. 
As the Nawab’s affairs were now prosperous, he gave himself up to 
amusement and pleasure and came to the determination to marry a new 
wife. His courtiers told him of a young girl who was, they considered, fitted 
to be his bride. A man of noble family by both parents, a descendant of 
Nawab Khan Jahan Khan, who held high rank in the reign of Shahjahan, 
had by unstable fortune been reduced to poverty. By accident he had 
taken up his abode in the town of Shamsabad. After a time, he had de- 
parted from this world, leaving a widow and a young daughter, named 
Khair-un-nissa. -It so happened that Yakat Khan, Khan Bahadur, had 
obtained this girl from the widow and had adopted her as his own. She 
was still a virgin and living in the house of the deceased Khan. The 
Nawab hearing this story fellin love with her without seeing her. He 
sent for her and placed her in the Khas Mahal; and, after the wedding 
preparations were made, he was married to her. From that time he never 
left her for a moment. These words were always on his lips— 
Sharab do-silah 0 ma shih sezdah salah, 
Hamin bas ast barde suhbat-i-saghir o kabir. 
“TJ like my wine two years old, and my mistress to be sixteen.” 
After a time, in the year 1171 H. (Sept. 1757 to Sept. 1758), ason was 
born to her and gifts were distributed to the poor. The Nawab opened the 
Kurdn to search for the child’s name. The letter D was the result. He then 
sent for astrologers and ordered them to draw up the child’s horoscope. The 
name fixed upon was Daler Himmat Khan. An announcement of the event 
was sent to the Emperor with fitting gifts. There were great rejoicings 
