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Agharabad to SiHli, 1 on the 1st Rabi‘ II. 1130 H. (3rd March, 1718) ; 
and a few days afterwards Muhammad Murad was created Ptiqad 
Khan, Bahadur, Farrukhshalii, received a standard, kettle-drums, two 
elephants and several horses, with the rank of 5,000, 2,000 horse, and 
replaced Amir Khan as superintendent of the pages ( Jchawas ) T with 
the right to come and go at all hours of the day or night. 2 His in¬ 
fluence increased in a marked degree every day. As one writer says, 
he was promoted daily ; on one day to 5000, the next to 6,000, and the 
next to 7000. 3 On the 16th Rabi‘ 11, (18th March), they came back to 
‘Agharabad, and on the 22nd, Muhammad Murad was made ddroahah of 
the mace-bearers. Whole nights were spent by Farrukhsiyar in con¬ 
clave with Muhammad Murad and other favourites; sometimes he did 
not retire to rest until break of day. As Muhammad Murad had a bad 
reputation and was pointed at for secret vices, this constant companion¬ 
ship gave rise to undesirable reports, defamatory of a descendant of 
Taimur and derogatory to the lustre of his rule. On the 21stRabi‘ II, 
a mansion in Dihli was given to Muhammad Murad. Finally, on the 
12th Jamadi I, 1130 H. (12th April, 1718), the Emperor left. Aghara¬ 
bad and re-entered the palace. 
Presents continued to be showered lavishly on Muhammad Murad. 
On the 9th Jamadi II. (9th May, 1718), he was raised to 6,000, 5,000 
horse, various gifts were added, and he was appointed faujddr of Jam¬ 
mu, with power to appoint a deputy. His son and two of his officers 
were given mansabs of 1,000. Twenty days afterwards he was again 
promoted, becoming 7,000, 7,000 horse, received a valuable fringed litter 
(pcilhl ) and other gifts, with the office of Nazir , or governor of the im¬ 
perial harem. On the 2nd Rajab (21st May, 1718) a gold bedstead, 
covered with gold plates and studded with jewels, which had belonged 
to the Emperor Jahangir, was given to the favourite. In fact, not a 
night passed without his receiving silver and gold coin, valuable jewels 
or rich clothes. The best jagirs in the Gujarat, Dihli, and Agrah pro¬ 
vinces were also allotted to him. In the course of one year and some 
months he had become the owner of one hundred elephants, with 
from Jan. 1718 at Sarae Badli, which was close to Agharabad and the Shalibma, 
garden. 
1 Siuli, just S. or E. of Panipat. 
2 In honour of the occasion he had the following motto (shaja ( ) cut on his seal; 
Murad ydft, zi Farrukhsiyar, khudeo-i-jahdn, 
Ba husn-i-myat-i-khud i‘tiqdd~i Ichan-i-jahan. 
Murad (Desire) obtained from Farrukhsiyar, Ruler of the World, 
“By virtue of good intent, the confidence (i'tiqad) of the Lord of the World. 
8 Yahya Khan, fol. 124a. 
