1 150 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
2 usile gla) diad wordy ys Uma
3 LAL ge oh pl al4 Urge Jo
4 cal wi 3 wale Sta? Dis Jue!
5 “ When the second Sdhib-i-Qirdn,* the Emperor Jahdnglr,
6 Sat on the throne of prosperity with justice and moderation,
7 Glory, prosperity, wealth, victory and pomp,
8 Girded their loins for service before him.
9 It isin the year of the royal accession that _
10 Glory has laid its head at the foot of the second Sahib-i-Qirdn.”
11 He confirmed most of his father’s ministers in their posts, but removed’
12 from office all those who had favoured the religious innovations of Akber,
13 He restores the and restored the forms and ritual of the Mahomedan religion to their former
14 Mahomedan ritual. supremacy. He raised Sharif Khan, his boon companion, to the dignity of
15 prime minister, and appointed Said Khan Moghal, viceroy of the Panjab.
16 His beneficent mea- Ele issued some ordinances for the benefit of his subjects. He abolished the
17 sures at the commence- duties called Tamgha and Mir Bahri. He caused sarais, wells and mosques
18 to be built on the highways that were infested by robbers. He passed a law
19 forbidding the bales of merchants to be opened without their consent, and
20 directed that no soldiers or servants of the state should locate themselves in
21 private houses. The use, manufacture and sale of every sort of intoxicating
22 liquor was prohibited, though Jahangir had been himself notoriously in the
23 habit of taking wine. The jdgirddrs and officers of the Khalsd were forbid-
24 den to take lands of the rayais by force, or to form connections with the
25 people without permission. He established hospitals in large towns, and
26 appointed doctors to attend the sick at the expense of the state. The
27 slaughter of animals on certain days was prohibited, as in the days of Akber.
28 Theceremony of pro: The old Tartar ceremony of prostration before the sovereign was exacted
29 Pioethekiug from all who had an audience of the king, and his majesty, like his father,
30 TeBeW et appeared every morning at the “ jharoka” (window) to exhibit himself to
31 the multitude below, and receive their blessings. He introduced a measure
32 which afforded complainants special facilities for obtaining easy access to
33 The “chain of jus him, A chain of gold was attached to a battlement of the fort, with the
34 wee other end affixed to a stone column on the bank of the river. It was called
35 “the chain of justice.” It was 30 yards long and had sixty golden bells on
36 it. It communicated with a cluster of golden bells within the King’s own
37 apartments, and every person oppressed was allowed to shake it, and appeal
38 to the king to grant redress, in spite of the officers interested in keeping
39 back the information.
40 The rebellion of the In the spring of 1606, or six months after the accession of Jahdngir, his
41 Rinsow. ~~ eldest. son, Khusrow, having broken into rebellion, fled to the Panjab, where
42 he collected a body of upwards of 10,000 troops. He plundered the country
43 Be avs siege to as he went, and, having invested Lahore, set one of the gates of the city on
44 fire. The city was gallantly defended by the imperial officers, Mirza Husain,
45 Dildwar Beg Khan, Husain Beg, Diwdn, and Nir-ud-din Kuli, Kotwal, who
46 repaired the breaches in the wall of the city that had been caused by the
47 fire of the besiegers, Said Khdu, who was deputed to Kashmir, having
48 heard of the seige of Lahore by Khusrow, repaired from the Chindb with his
49 contingent and joined the royal troops in the fort. Inthe meantime Jahangir
50 was on his march to Léhore, and the imperial vanguard, under Sheikh Farid
51 Bokhéri, appearing within sight of the city, Khusrow drew up his troops in
52 -order of battle. A sanguinary engagement took place between the two
53 * Sdhib-i-Qirdn literally means one born ici j i
54 aie a Miers Bie of honor given by thelistodland to eienie: “s nein is hore ‘styled the
55 Sri Satguru J agjit Singh Ji eLibrary NamdhariElibrary@ gmail.com