72 ARJUN, THE SIKH LEADER. had dreams about me which had come true, I gave him twenty lakhs of dams, equivalent to 30,000 or 40,000 rupees, for the expenses of himself and his monastery and the dervishes who were with him. On the 22nd I pro- moted ‘Abdu-llah Khan to the rank of 2,500 personal and 500 horse, original and increased. I ordered to be given to the ahadis two lakhs of rtpees to be paid in advanee and deducted by degrees from their monthly pay. I bestowed 6,000 rupees on Qasin Beg Khin, the son-in-law of Sha an, and 3,000 rupees on Sayyid Bahadur Khan. In Gobindwal, which is on the river Biyah (Beas), there was a Hindu named Arjun in the garments of sainthood and sanctity, so mush”So that he had captured many of the simple-hearted of she Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners, and they had loudly sounded the drum of his holiness. They called him Gard, and from all sides stupid people crowded to worship and manifest complete faith in him. For three or four generations (of spiritual successors) they had kept this shop warm. Many times it oceurred to me to put a stop to this vain affair or to bring him into ‘the assembly of the people of Islam. ‘At_last when Khusrau passed along this road this insignificant fellow proposed to wait upon him, Khusrau happened to halt at the place where he was, and he came out and did homage to him. He behaved to Khusrau in certain special ways, and made on his forehead a finger- mark in saffron, which the Indians (Hinduwan) call qushqa2 and is considered propitious. When this eame to my ears and I clearly understood his folly, I ordered them 1 ‘Phe fifth Gara of the Sikhs and the compiler of the Granth. He was the father of Har Govind. See Sayyid Mujammad Latif’s history of the Panjab, p. 253. Arjun’s tomb is in Lahore, 2 But qashga is a Turkish word. ‘The Hindi phrase seems to be fikd.ARRIVAL OF PARWIZ. 73 j to produce him and handed over his houses, dwelling- places, and children to Murtazi Khim, and having con- fiseated his property commanded that he should be put to death, There were two men named Rajit and Amba, who, under the shadow of the protection o! the eunuch Daulat Khan, made their livelihood by oppression and tyranny, and had done many acts of oppression in the few days that Khusrau was before Lahore. I ordered Raji to the gallows and a fine ta be taken from Amhi, who was reputed to be wealthy. In short, 15,000 rupees were collected from him, which sum I ordered them to expend on bulghwr-khanas (refectories) and in charity. Sa‘du-llah Khan, son of Sa‘d Khan, was promoted to the rank of 2,000 personal and 1,000 horse. In his great desire to wait upon me, Parwiz traversed long distances in a short time, in the rainy season and incessant rain, and on Thurstay, the 29th, when two watches and thiee ghayi of day had passed, obtained the blessing of seeing me. With exceeding kindness and affection, I took him into the embrace of favour and kissed his forehead. When this disgraceful conduct showed itself in Khusrau, I had resolved not to delay in any place till I had captured him. ‘There was a probability that he might tum back towards Hindustan, so it appeared impolitic to leave Agra empty, as it was the centre of the State, the abode of the ladies of the holy harem, and the depository of the world’s treasures. On these accounts T had written when leaving Agra to Parwiz, saying that his loyalty had had this result, that Khusrau had fled and that Fortune had turned her face toward himself; that T had started in pursuit of Khusrau, and that he should consequently dispose of the affairs of the Rana in some way according to the necessity of the time, and for the benefit of the kingdom should himself come quickly to