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came and brought a wind and they were just about to start when a 
boat called a “ tawari ” (see Blochmann, 241) came in from Diu and 
reported that all Gujrat was in a blaze owing to the insurrection of 
Muzaffar. In this extremity Bayazid consoled himself and his friend 
as they were sitting in the ship’s cabin ( dabus) by taking an omen from 
Hafiz, the result of which was to satisfy them that the descendants 
of Huraayun would eventually prevail. He was eight months on 
board ship and after a voyage of two months arrived at the port of 
Kuda (qr. Godhri, or perhaps Ghoga). Bayazid was in danger here 
but ultimately escaped to Surat. Apparently Muzaffar let him go on 
account of their old acquaintance when Muzaffar was his prisoner at 
Cunar. He liked the climate of Surat and was willing to stay there 
but his sons Sa‘adat Yar and Iftikhar who were in Akbar’s service, 
wrote to him that the Emperor was expecting him. He therefore waited 
upon Akbar in Fathpur Slkri in the end of 992, (December 1584), and 
was graciously received, getting a house and the pargana of Sanan, 
for which however he was to pay a rental of 14J lakhs. Raja Todar 
Mai did not like Bayazid and tried to screw a higher rental out of 
him. He got the pargana in partnership with his sons, and apparently 
it was not lucrative. 
In 994, (1586), Bayazid was raised to the rank of a mansab of 
200 1 and next year he was made Steward ( bakawal ) and chamberlain 
(Ishaq Agha ). But he was soon after attacked with paralysis and 
had to give up all his appointments. But in 998 he returned to work 
and was made a Treasury daro gh a and amin. In 999 Akbar gave him 
(probably in consideration of his bodily infirmity) permission to sit in 
the royal presence, and declared before a number of courtiers that 
Bayazid was an honest man and had served the state for nearly two 
qarn , i.e ., for 60 years. The Memoirs were completed on Sunday, 1st 
Ramazan, 999, (13th June, 1591), and with this statement and some 
verses the book closes. Previous to this Bayazid describes some build¬ 
ings that he erected at LahSr, and gives an account of the distribution 
of copies of his book. 
1 He must have got further promotion for Abu’l-fazl, (Blochmann, 501), ranks 
him among the commanders of 300. Probably this was when he became Bakawal 
Beg in 995. 
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