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bad come. Putting on his chain mail-shirt (zarrah), his breastplate and 
back-piece (bagtar and chahar-aina) , his helmet (khuz) and gauntlets 
(dastydna), and attaching to his waist his shield, sword and dagger, he 
started for the audience hall, taking with him his son, Ahmad Khan. Mu¬ 
hammad Khan, being a mere soldier, did not understand a single word of 
Persian, Turki or Pushtu, while Ahmad Khan understood all three. # 
When they arrived, Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah were seated on two 
chairs in a line. Two hundred Wilayatis were on the right and two hun¬ 
dred on the left of Nadir Shah with drawn swords in their hands. The 
master of the ceremonies (’Arzhegi) announced Muhammad Khan, stating 
that he was armed and refused to leave his sword at the door, on the ground 
that he was a soldier, not a noble, and that a soldier’s jewels were his arms. 
Nadir Shah directed that he should be admitted armed. When Muham¬ 
mad Khan appeared, he first made obeisance to his own king, and then 
turning to Nadir Shah presented his dagger by way of offering (nazar). 
Nadir Shah touched and remitted it. Muhammad Khan then went and 
stood at the right side of Muhammad Shah. Nadir Shah remarked, “ Bro¬ 
ther Mirza Muhammad Beg, you have three faithful servants, and the rest 
are traitors ; those three are Nasir Khan, Khan Dauran Khan and Muham¬ 
mad Khan; from these I received no letters, from all the rest I received 
invitations to invade your country.” Muhammad Khan craving leave, re¬ 
marked that none was so faithless as he ; for had he been staunch His Majes¬ 
ty would not have easily come so far ; and he regretted that he had not 
been posted to the van of the army. Nadir Shah made no reply. After a 
short interval a Tchila't, more valuable than given to any of his equals, 
was granted. Putting on the robes, he made his obeisance, but gave no 
money offering. Nadir Shah’s wazir, thinking this was wrong, asked the 
reason. Muhammad Khan answered that it was not a soldier’s business to 
give tribute of gold and silver, that he left to amirs and wazirs. He was 
only a soldier, and his head was his offering. 
Some days after this, Muhammad Khan attended an audience, when the 
two kings were seated as before, guarded by the Wilayatis with drawn swords. 
Nadir Shah’s Persian troops and a small number of Muhammad Shah’s men 
were drawn up outside. With Muhammad was a Shekhzada of Shekhpur,f 
very clever but very thin and very short. He was a perfect master of the art 
of archery, and possessed arrows of every sort. J 
* Pir Muhammad Ivhawas is named as the authority for this story. 
f A village close to Kamalganj, on the Cawnpur road, 8 miles south of Farrukha- 
Md. 
J The following are the names of various kinds of arrows then in use : 1. Lais, 
it tears the flesh : a single arrow costs as much as a gold coin. 2. Kalandra. 3 # 
Kohar-tarash. 4. Ghera, with a head three fingers-broad ; it makes a wound like a 
