935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 637
out their army for Kharld,1 he (Ghiasu'd-din) was not able to be back at the time fixed.2 SI. Junaid said, by vvord-of-mouth, " Thank God ! through His grace, no work worth the Padshah's attention has shewn itself in these parts ; if the honoured Mlrza ('Askarl) come, and if the sultans, khans and amirs here-abouts be ordered to move in his steps, there is hope that everything in these parts will be arranged with ease." Though such was SI. Junaid's answer,yet, as people were saying that Mulla Muhammad Mazhab, who had been sent as envoy to Bengal after the Holybattle with Sanga the Pagan,3 would arrive today or tomorrow, his news also was awaited.
{Dec. 31st) On Friday the 19th of the month I had eaten ma'jun and was sitting with a special few in the private house, when Mulla Mazhab who had arrived late, that is to say, in the night of Saturday,4 came and waited on me. By asking one particular after another, we got to know that the attitude of the Bengali s was understood to be loyal and single-minded.
{Jan. 2nd) On Sunday {Rabi' II. 21st), I summoned the Turk and Hind amirs to the private house, when counsel was taken and the following matters were brought forward: As the Bengali (Nasrat Shah) has sent us an envoy6 and is said to be loyal and single-minded, to go to Bengal itself would be improper ; if the move be not on Bengal, no other place on that side has treasure helpful for the army ', several places to the west are both rich and near,
(Turkl) Abounding wealth, a pagan people, a short road ; Far though the East lie, this is near. >
At length the matter found settlement at this : As our westward road is short, it will be all one if we delay a few days, so that our minds may be at ease about the East. Again Ghiasu'd-din the armourer was made to gallop off, with tryst of 20 days,7 to
' A sub-division of the Ballia district of the United Provinces, on the right bank of the Ghogra.
2 i.e. in 16 days ; he was 24 or 25 days away.
3 The envoy had beep, long in returning ; Kanwa was fought in March, 1527 ; it is now the end of 152SAD.
* Rabi' II. 20th January 1st 1529ad. ; Anglice, Friday, after 6p.m.
5 This " Bengali" is territorial only ; Nasrat Shall was a Sayyid's son (f. 271).
6 Isma'il Mita (f. 357) who will have come with Mulla Mazhab.
7 mi'iid, cf. f. 3504 and f. 354A Ghiasu'd-din may have been a body-guard.
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