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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
carried unvaried success through all his most perilous 
undertakings. Immediately upon his arrival, Mo- 
hummed Shah hastened to receive him with all 
possible distinction, and actually condescended to 
honour him with the royal presence in the palace for 
a whole week, conferring upon him the very highest 
titles of a subject, with a suit of his own robes*. 
The queen-mother also did her utmost to magnify 
him in the sight of all men, by assigning to him 
the ineffably illustrious appellation of Brother. His 
favourites were made the favourites at court, and his 
chief servants were raised to be the chief servants of 
the state. Khoosh Kuddum, the commander of his 
elephants, for instance, who had behaved with dis- 
tinguished gallantry in all his various campaigns, 
was promoted to high rank, with the title of Kishwa 
Kahn ; and the forts of Goa, Poonda, Kundwal, and 
Kolapoor, with tracts of the surrounding country, 
were granted to him in addition to his other estates. 
When Mahmood Shah took his royal leave of the 
general, who had now become prime -minister also, 
that chief retired to his own apartment, and divest- 
ing himself of the imperial robes, threw himself 
upon the ground, and wept plenteously. He then 
dressed himself in the humble habit of a dervish, 
and calling to his presence all those within the city 
who were most distinguished for their learning and 
piety, he distributed among them the greater part of 
* See p. 88. 
