On the 25th the contingent of I`timadu-d-daulah passed before me in review on the plain under the jharoka. There were 2,000 cavalry well horsed, most of whom were Moghuls, 500 foot armed with bows and guns, and fourteen elephants. The bakhshis reckoned them up and reported that this force was fully equipped and according to rule. On the 26th a tigress was killed. On Thursday, the 1st Urdibihisht, a diamond that Muqarrab Khan had sent by runners was laid before me; it weighed 23 surkh, and the jewellers valued it at 30,000 rupees. It was a diamond of the first water, and was much approved. I ordered them to make a ring of it. On the 3rd the mansab of Yusuf Khan was, at the request of Baba Khurram, fixed at 1,000 with 1,500 horse and in the same way the mansabs of several of the Amirs and mansabdars were increased at his suggestion. On the 7th, as the huntsmen had marked down four tigers, when two watches and three gharis had passed I went out to hunt them with my ladies. When the tigers came in sight Nur-Jahan Begam submitted that if I would order her she herself would kill the tigers with her gun. I said, "Let it be so." She shot two tigers with one shot each and knocked over the two others with four shots. In the twinkling of an eye she deprived of life the bodies of these four tigers. Until now such shooting was never seen, that from the top of an elephant and inside of a howdah (`amari) six shots should be made and not one miss, so that the four beasts found no opportunity to spring or move. [591] As a reward for this good shooting I gave her a pair of bracelets [592] (pahunchi) of diamonds worth 100,000 rupees and scattered 1,000 ashrafis (over her). On the same day Ma`mur Khan (the architect-Khan) obtained leave to go to Lahore to complete the buildings of the palace there. On the 10th the death of Sayyid Waris, who was faujdar of the Subah of Oudh, was reported. On the 12th, as Mir Mahmud asked for a faujdarship, I dignified him with the title of Tahawwur Khan, and, increasing his mansab, appointed him to the faujdarship of some of the parganahs of the Subah of Multan. On the 22nd, Tahir, the bakhshi of Bengal, who had been forbidden to pay his respects, waited upon me and presented his offerings. Eight elephants were also presented as the offering of Qasim Khan, governor of Bengal, and two as that of Shaikh Modhu. On the 28th, at the request of Khan Dauran, an order was given for the increase of the mansab of `Abdu-l-`Aziz Khan by 500. On the 5th Khurdad the duty of the Diwanship of Gujarat was given to Mirza Husain in supercession of Kesho. I dignified him with the title of Kifayat Khan. On the 8th, Lashkar Khan, who had been appointed bakhshi of Bangash, came and waited on me; he offered 100 muhrs and 500 rupees. Some days before this Ustad Muhammad Nayi (flute-player), who was unequalled in his craft, was sent by my son Khurram at my summons. I had heard some of his musical pieces [593] (majlis-saz), and he played a tune which he had composed for an ode (ghazal) in my name. On the 12th I ordered him to be weighed against rupees; this came to 6,300 rupees. I also gave him an elephant with a howdah, [594] and I ordered him to ride on it and, having packed [595] his rupees about him, to proceed to his lodging. Mulla Asad, the story-teller, one of the servants of Mirza Ghazi, came on the same day from Tattah and waited on me. As he was a reciter and story-teller full of sweetness and smartness, I liked his society, and I made him happy with the title of Mahzuz Khan, and gave him 1,000 rupees, a dress of honour, a horse, an elephant, and a palanquin. After some days I ordered him to be weighed against rupees, and his weight came up to 4,400. He was raised to the mansab of 200 personal and 20 horse. I ordered him always to be present at the meetings for talk (gap). On the same day Lashkar Khan brought his men to the darshan jharoka before me. There were 500 horse, 14 elephants, and 100 musketeers. On the 24th news came that Maha Singh, grandson of Raja Man Singh, who was entered among the great officers, had died from excessive wine-drinking at Balapur in the province of Berar. His father also had died at the age of 32 [596] from the drinking of wine beyond measure. On the same day they had brought to my private fruit-house many mangoes from all parts of the province of the Deccan, Burhanpur, Gujarat, and the parganahs of Malwa.