933 AH. OCT. 8th 1526 to SEP. 27th 1527 AD. 581
which had dismounted at Toda-(bhim).1 After leaving Toda, we dismounted at Sunkar ; there Hasan Khan MiwdtVs son Nahar Khan escaped from 'Abdu'r-rahim's charge.
Going on from that place, we halted one night, then dismounted at a spring situated on the bill of a mountain between Busawar and Chausa2 (or Jusa); there awnings were set up and we committed the sin of mdjiin. When the army had passed by this spring, Tardl Beg khaksar had praised it; he (or we) had come and seen it from on horse-back {sar-asbgi) and passed on. It is a perfect spring. In Hindustan where there are never running-waters,3 people seek out the springs themselves. The rare springs that are found, come oozing drop by drop (ab-siJi) out of the ground, not bubbling up like springs of those lands.4 From this spring comes about a half-mill-water. It bubbles up on the hill-skirt; meadows lie round it ; it is very beautiful. I ordered an octagonal reservoir of hewn stone made above5 it. While we were at the border of the spring, under the soothing influence of ma'jun, Tardl Beg, contending for its surpassing beauty, said again and again, {Persian) " Since I am celebrating the beauty of the place,6 a name ought to be settled for it ". 'Abdu'1-lah said, " It must be called the Royal-spring approved of by Tardl Beg." This saying caused much joke and laughter.
Dost Lord-of-the-gate coming up from Biana, waited on me at this spring-head. Leaving this place, we visited Biana again, went on to SlkrT, dismounted there at the side of a garden which had been ordered made, stayed two days supervising the garden, and on Thursday the 23rd of Rajab {April 25//Z), reached Agra.
(/. Chandwar and Rapri regained?)
During recent disturbances, the enemy, as has been mentioned,7 had possessed themselves of Chandwar8 and Rapri. Against
Khari and Toda were in Akbar's sarkar of Rantarpbhor. s Bhosawar is in Bhurtpur, and Chausa (or JSsa) may be the Chausath of the Aylni-nkbarl, ii, 183.
3 As has been noted frequently, this phrase stands for artificial water-courses.
4 Certainly Trans-IIindu-kush lands ; presumably also those of Trans-Indus, Kabul in chief.
5 aiisti; perhaps the reservoir was so built as to contain the bubbling spring. Ckilnj'd'i khwu* h karda am.
I f-3'5. var. Janwar (Jarrett). It is 25 m. east of Agra on the Muttra-Etawa road (G. of/.).
