artillery and a large number of trained elephants
completed his war equipage. Thus he had
made himself fully independent of his master and
the virtual king of the Karnatak. In short, it
has been well said by one historian that though
Mir Jumla's rank was that of a noble, he possessed the power wealth and grandeur of a ruling prince.[1]
Mir Jumla's growing power and wealth roused the alarm of his master. Envious courtiers were not wanting to whisper to the Sultan of Golkonda that the absent wazir's armed strength was a menace to his own security, and that the servant's wealth overshadowed the grandeur of the master's Court. Qutb Shah, too, Qutb Shah in jealousy tries to ruin Mir Jumla, naturally wished to have a share of his wazir's gains. In the conquest of the Karnatak the two had acted as partners; Mir Jumla had supplied the brain and leadership, while the Sultan had lent him the necessary men and money and the protection of his name, in the first stage at all events. They now quarrelled about the profits. Qutb Shah tried to treat Mir
- ↑ At Haidarabad a tank, a garden, and a mansion bear his name. Some distance outside the city a village (pettah) was founded and named after him. "He has left many memorials of himself in Telingana where he lived long." (M. U., iii. 555) Waris, 102a, 111a and b, 114a, 118a, Adab, 39a, 116a. Tavernier, i. 170n, Bernier, 17.
