935 AH. SEP. 15TH 1528 TO SEP. 5TH 1529 AD. 639
(it. News ofthe loss of Bihar reaches Dhulpur.)
{fan. gtli) On the eve of Sunday the 28th of the month (Rabi' II) we crossed the Jun (Jumna) at the 6th gari of the 3rd watch (2.15 a.m.) and started for the Lotus-garden of Dulpur. The 3rd watch was near 1 (Sunday mid-day) when we reached it. Places were assigned on the border of the garden, where begs and the household might build or make camping-grounds for themselves.
(fan. 13th) On Thursday the 3rd of the first Jumada, a place was fixed in the s.e. of the garden for a Hot-bath ; the ground was to be levelled ; I ordered a plinth (?) (kursi) erected on the levelled ground, and a Bath to be arranged, in one room of which was to be a reservoir 10 X IO.
On this same day Khalifa sent from Agra dutiful letters of QazI Jla and Bir-sing Deo, saying it had been heard said that Iskandar's son Mahmud (Li'idi) had taken Bihar (town). This news decided for getting the army to horse.
{Jan. 14th) On Friday (Jumada I. 4th), we rode out from the Lotus-garden at the 6thgari (8.15 a.m.); at the Evening Trayer we reached Agra. We met Muhammad-i-zaman Mlrza.on the road who would have gone to Dulpur, Chin-timur also who must have been coming into Agra.2
(Jan. 15th) On Saturday (5th) the counselling begs having been summoned, it was settled to ride eastwards on Thursday the 10th of the month (Jan. 21 si).
(jf. News of Badakhshan.)
On this same Saturday letters came from Kabul with news that Humayun, having mustered the army on that side (Tramontana), and joined SI. Wais to himself, had set out with 40,000 men for Samarkand ;3 on this SI. Wais' younger brother
1 ydmiushub aidi, which I translate in accordance with other uses of the verb, as meaning approach, but is taken by some other workers to mean " near its end".
" Though it is not explicitly said, Chin-tlmur may have been met with on the road ; as the "also" (ham) suggests.
3 To the above news the Akbar-nama adds the important item reported by Humayun, that there was talk of peace. Babur replied that, if the time for negotiation were not past, Humayun was to make peace until such time as the affairs of Hindustan were cleared off. This is followed in the A.N. by a seeming quotation from Babur's letter, saying in effect that he was about to leave Hindustan, and that his followers in Kabul and Tramontana must prepare for the expedition against Samarkand which would be made on his own arrival. None of the above matter is now with the Bubur-nama ;
