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garden. Mun‘im came there to pay his respects, and tlie child put up 
his foster-brother, Adharn Koka to ask for a holiday. Mnn‘im made the 
desired request to the teacher, and as he was then prime minister and 
all-powerful, the tutor at once gave Akbar his liberty. This came 
to Humayun’s ears and next day when Shamsu-d-din Atka brought 
Akbar to salute his father, Humayun observed to the child, “ Yesterday 
you got Haji Muhammad Sultan to ask your teacher to set you free, 
do not such a thing again.” When the prince had gone back to his 
school, Humayun turned to Mun‘im Khan and said “ I heard that you 
got him the holiday, but I mentioned the name of Haji Muhammad to 
my son because he is yet young and possibly it might remain in his heart 
‘ Mun‘im Khan got me a holiday, and then told the king ’ and 
this might lead to your harm some day when I am no longer here. As 
for Haji Muhammad, he is a man without any decency and so deserves 
any harm that may come to him.” 
Bayazid adds that he heard this story in Jaunpur in 978 (1570-71) 
when Mun‘im Khan was Khan-khanan. 
Bayazid describes the blinding of Kamran but he was not present 
on the occasion and his narrative is by no means so detailed as that 
of Jauhar. He, however, gives a most affecting description of the 
interview between the two brothers afterwards when they met at 
midnight, and the blind Kamran was led out as far as the tent-ropes 
to meet Humayun. But it has been so well translated in Erskine’s 
History (II, 416), that it is unnecessary to repeat the account. I shall 
only remark that what Kamran said to the bystanders after acknow¬ 
ledging that his misfortunes were due to his own fault is somewhat 
different in Bayazid from Mr. Erskine’s rendering. According to the 
latter, Kamran said, “ If it be known that his Majesty has shown 
favour to me, let it also be known how little I have deserved it.” 
Apparently what Kamran said was, (Bayazid 646) “If people con¬ 
sider that his Majesty has dealt kindly by me, I attest the fact.” 
(man sijil Jccirdam ). MurJim Khan was now appointed guardian of 
Akbar. He took him to Jul Shahi, which is the old name of Jalalabad. 
The Jalalabad fort was built by Mun‘im Khan and received its name in 
compliment to Akbar, (one of whose names was Jalalu-d-din), and who 
got Jui Shahi as his appanage in succession to his uncle Hindal, whose 
daughter also he married. Bayazid gives the chronogram of the 
building of Jalalabad, which also served, with the addition of one 
letter, for the date of the building of the Jaunpur bridge ten years 
later. One Qasim Arslan was the composer of the chronograms but 
they do not seem to be correctly given in the MS. Apparently they 
should run Baniy-i-o an MunHm Khan , and Baniy-i-o in MunHm Khan 
which would give respectively 972 and 982. 
