925 AH. JAN. 3rd TO DEC. 23rd 1519 AD. 385
on the Turk." Accordingly on Thursday the 1st of Rabl'u'lavvwal, Mulla Murshid was appointed to go to SI. Ibrahim who through the death of his father SI. Iskandar had attained to rule in Hindustan some 5 or 6 months earlier(?). I sent him a goshawk {qdrchJghd) and asked for ihe countries which from of old had depended on the Turk. Mulla Murshid was given charge of writings [khattlar) for Daulat Khan ( Yiisuf-khait) and writings for Si. Ibrahim ; matters were sent also by word-of-mouth ; and he was given leave to go. Far from sense and wisdom, shut off from judgment and counsel must people in Hindustan be, the Afghans above all ; for they could not move and make stand like a foe, nor did they know ways and rules of friendliness. Daulat Khan kept my man several days in Lahur without seeing him'himself or speeding him on to SI. Ibrahim ; and he came back to Kabul a few months later without bringing a reply.
(«. Birth of Hind-al)
{March 4th) On Friday the 2nd of the month, the foot-soldiers Shaibak and Darwesh-i-'all, he is now a matchlockman, bringing dutiful letters from Kabul, brought news also of Hind-al's birth. As the news came during the expedition into Hindustan, I took it as an omen, and gave the name Hind-al (Taking of Hind). Dutiful letters came also from Muhammadi-zaman M. in Balkh, by the hand of Qambar Beg.
{March 5th) Next morning when the Court rose, we rode out for an excursion, entered a boat and there drank 'araq.1 The people of the party were Khwaja Dost-khawand, Khusrau, Mirlm, Mlrza Qull, Muhammad!, AhmadI, Gadal, Na'man, Langar Khan, Rauh-dam,2 Qasim-i-'all the opium-eater {tariydkt), Yusuf-i-'all and Tlngrl-qull. Towards the head of the boat there was a td/dr3 on the flat top of which I sat with a few people, a few others sitting below. There was a sitting-place also at the tail of the boat; there Muhammadl, Gadal and Na'man sat. 'Araq was drunk till the Other Prayer when, disgusted by its bad flavour, by consent of those at the head of the boat, ma'jun was preferred.
Here this will be the fermtnted juice of rice or of the date-palm. Rauh is sometimes the name of a musical note. 3 a platform, with or without a chamber above it, and supported on four posts.
