Autobiographical Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir

At the point in the centre of the top part of the crown was a single pearl of four mithkals of the value of one lak of ashrefies; and on different parts of the same were set altogether two hundred rubies of one mithkal each and each of the value of six thousand rupees. [...] As my father's determination sprung from the sincerity of his heart just six months after the death of my last departed ifant brother namely on Wednesday the seventeenth of the former month of Rebbeia of the year of the Hidjerah 978 t the sun being in the twenty-fourth degree of Libra and when seven gurries of the day were passed the Most High ushered the humble narrator of these events in [...] 7 battlements of the royal tower of the castle of Agrah and the other to a stone pillar near the bed of the river Jumnah ; to the end that when at any time the dispensers of law under my authority might fail in the administration of justice the injured party by applying his hand to the chain would find himself in the way of obtaining speedy redress. [...] Hest thou not heard how in the chambers of the west the throne of Solomon was delivered to the winds; of that Solomon the blesed of all generations Thrice happy the manwhose life has been passed in the practice of wisdom and justice whose exertions have been directed to the repose of mankind; he bears away the honours of the course. [...] Of Mirza Gheyauss Beg* how shall I speak in terms of sufficient praise I With the office of high steward of the household he had enjoyed under my father the dignity of a grandee of one thousand ; and I appointed nim some time after my accession to the office of Diwan or Chancellor in the room of Vezzeir Rhaun with the rank of seven thousand the title of Ettemaud-ud-doulah and the insignia o