158 W. Irvine—The Bangash Nawébs of Farrukhabad. [No. 2, 
bulent. Sometimes Miyan Sahib Roshan Khan was sent eastwards to 
restore order. This office of Miyan Sdhib, or familiar companion of the 
Nawab, was held by a number of persons in succession. The first was 
Sa’datmand Khan. He wasa boy, named Madan Singh, whom Roshan Khan 
captured on one of his expeditions, when he destroyed the village of Sabz- 
pur (?). When Ahmad Khan saw the lad, he took a faney to him, made 
him a Muhammadan and gave him the name of Sa’datmand Khan. A year 
afterwards he raised him to high rank and gave him the title of Amir-zddah, 
telling Bakhshi Fakhr-ud-daula that every act done by Amir-zidah Sa’dat- 
mand Khan was to be considered as final, no one was to interfere. His 
father, Mandal Singh, was made ruler of Kanauj. 
The other Miyan Sahibs were: (1) Sa’dat Khan Afridi, (2) Sayyad 
Nur ’Ali Khan, (3) Mir Jin ’Ali Khan, (4) Roshan Khan. Sa’dat Khan 
was the brother of Mahmiid Khan, Bakhshi to Nawab Kdim Jang. He 
was appointed during the campaign in the hills (1751-2). One day 
the Nawab had seen him in the bazar of Sayyad Nur ’Ali Khan and sent 
for him. Once the Nawab was reading a book, while Sa’dat Khan was 
seated behind him to the right, engaged in keeping the flies away. 
Sa’dat Khan in a disrespectful way brushed with the chawnri the head of 
Nur ’Ali, who was seated next him. The Nawab saw this and said to him, 
“The Omnipotent is Lord over all,— 
* Ba-chashm-i-hakdrat ma-bin ba-sie has 
“ Kih % mantakam hast, o farydd-ras.” 
Now, it was Sa’dat Khan’s habit to go every fifth or sixth day to spend 
the night at his own house in Amethi, returning to his post in the morning. 
A short time after the above incident, Sa’dat Khan asked for leave to go 
home. During the night, the Nawab conferred on Nur ’Ali Khan double 
the dignity and wealth that Sa’dat Khan possessed. At the appointed time 
Sa’dat Khan appeared, and what should he see, but Sayyad Nur ’Ali adorn- 
ed with jewels and seated on the edge of the masnad, at the right hand of 
the Naw4b. He fell into great consternation. On his approaching, the 
Nawdb spoke to him—* Look, Sa’dat Khan, at the work of the Causer of 
“ all things, remember yesterday’s words,—” 
Ohundn hast dn khalik be-nazir, 
Ba-yak lahza sizad gadd-ré amir. 
Makun ba stie kas az hakérat nigah ; 
Kunad az takabbar shahan ra fakir. 
“ Such are the ways of the Creator without equal, in a moment He 
“makes a beggar into a noble, and turns a king into a beggar,” Hearing 
