It was the Afternoon Prayer when Khalifa's younger brotherin-law Tahir Tlbrl* who had found Ibrahim's body in a heap of dead, brought in his head.
(x. Detachments sent to occupy Dihll and Agra.)
On that very same day we appointed Humayun MirzS 2 to ride fast and light to Agra with Khwaja Kalan, Muhammadi, Shah Mansur Bar/as, Yunas-i-'alf, 'Abdu'1-lah and Treasurer Wall, to get the place into their hands and to mount guard over the treasure. We fixed on Mahdl Khwaja, with Muhammad SI. Mlrza, 'Adil Sultan, SI. Junaid Barkis and Qutluq-qadam to leave their baggage, make sudden incursion on Dihll, and keep watch on the treasuries.3
{April 21si) We marched on next day and when we had gone 2 miles, dismounted, for the sake of the horses, on the bank of the Jun (Jumna).
{April 24th) On Tuesday (Rajab 12th), after we had halted on two nights and had made the circuit of Shaikh Nizamu'd-din Auliyd's tomb4 we dismounted on the bank of the Jun over against Dihll.5 That same night, being Wednesday-eve, we made an excursion into the fort of Dihll and there spent the night.
{April 25th) Next day (Wednesday Rajab 13th) I made the circuit of Khwaja Qutbu'd-dln's 6 tomb and visited the tombs and residences of SI. Ghiyasu'd-din Balban 7 and SI. Alau'u'd-dln
1 He was a brother of Muhibb-i-'all's mother.
2 To give Humayun the title Mlrza may be a scribe's lapse, but might also be a nuance of Babur's, made to shew, with other minutiae, that Humayun was in chief command. The other minute matters are that instead of Humayfm's name being the first of a simple series of commanders' names with the enclitic accusative appended to the last one (here Wall), as is usual, Humayfm's name has its own enclitic nl; and, again, the phrase is " Humayun with " such and such begs, a turn of expression differentiating him from the rest. The same unusual variations occur again, just below, perhaps with the same intention of shewing chief command, there of Mahdl Khwaja.
3 A small matter of wording attracts attention in the preceding two sentences. Babur, who does not always avoid verbal repetition, here constructs two sentences which, except for the place-names Dihll and Agra, convey information of precisely the same action in entirely different words.
* d. 1325 ad. The places Babur visited near Dihli are described in the Reports of the Indian Archaeological Survey, in Sayyid Ahmad's Asar Sanadidpp. 74-85, in Keene's Hand-book to Dihli and Murray's Hand-book to Bengal etc. The last two quote much from the writings of Cunningham and Fergusson.
5 and on the same side of the river.
6 d. 1235 ad. He wasia native of Aush [Ush] in Farghana. ' d. 1286 ad. He was a Slave ruler of Dihli.
