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bat Khan Mazandaranl, who belonged to the Qutb Shahi kingdom of Golconda, and Salabat Khan II, who was the chief minister of Murtada Nizam Shah I (1565-1587) of Abmadnagar.
Among the various presents that Shah Tahmasp, the $afawi ruler of Iran, sent to Husain Nizam Shah I (1553-1565), was a Circassian youth of extraordinary gifts and capacities, Shah Quli3 called Shihab Khan in the inscription4 on the Taltam Fort, whose intelligence, ready wit, and other attainments so pleased the king that he became the royal favourite, with the consequence that he progressed day by day and rose to a position of importance in the politics of the country.
In the same year the once defeated Prince Burhan appeared again in the garb of a ' Darwish ' at Ahmadnagar with the object of removing Murtada Nizam Shah from the throne, of killing Salabat Khan II, and of assuming sovereignty for himself.
" There he lay as a prisoner until by Firishta's advice King Murtada Nizam Shah sent orders for his release, when Mirza Khan and Prince Miran Husain were about to attack I.
The last to be mentioned in the list of poets who were patronised by Salabat Khan II: is Shah Ahmad · Murtada Anju, whose name has come down to us in connection with the following chronogram2 which gives the date of the completion of the Bagh-i-Farah Bakhsh :- (View the image of this page) ;SALA.