935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 to SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 659
measure all marches from Chunar on the direct road, Lutfi Beg to measure the river's bank whenever I went by boat. The direct toad today was said to be 11 kurohs (22 m.), the distance along the river, 18 (36m.).
{March 29th) Next day {Tuesday 19th), we stayed on that ground.
{March 30th) On Wednesday {20(h), we dismounted a kuroh (2 m.) below GhazTpur, I going by boat.
{March Jist) On Thursday {21st) Mahmud Khan Nuhdni1 waited on me on that ground. On this same day dutiful letters 2 came from Bihar Khan Bihar?s son Jalal Khan {Nuhdni),3 from Naslr Khan {Nuhdm)'s son Farld Khan,4 from Sher Khan Stir, from 'Alaul Khan Sur also, and from other Afghan amirs. Today came also a dutiful letter from 'Abdu'l-'azlz Master-of-the-horse, which had been written in Lahoron the 20th of the latter Jumada {Feb. 29(h), the very day on which Qaracha's Hindustani servant whom we had started off from near KalpI,5 reached Lahor. 'Abdu'l-'azlz wrote that he had gone with the others assigned to meet my family at Nll-ab, had met them there on the 9th of the latter Jumada {Feb. 18(h), had accompanied them to Chin-ab (Chan-ab), left them there, and come ahead to Lahor where he was writing his letter.
{April 1st) We moved on, I going by boat, on Friday {Rajab 22nd). I landed opposite Chausa to look at the ground of a year ago 6 where the Sun had been eclipsed and a fast kept.7 After I got back to the boat, Muhammad-i-zaman Mirza, coming up behind by boat, overtook me; at his suggestion ma'jiin was eaten.
The army had dismounted on the bank of the Karma-nasariver, about the water of which Hindus are understood to be extremely scrupulous. They do not cross it, but go past its
1 In the earlier part of the Hai. Codex this Afghan tribal-name is written Nuhani, nut in this latter portion a different scribe occasionally writes it Luhani (Index s.n.).
* 'arza-dasAt, i.e. phrased as from one of lower station to a superior.
3 His letter may have announced his and his mother DudQ Blbl's approach (f. 368-9).
i Naslr Khan had been an amir of SI. Sikandar Ludi. Sher Khan Sur married his widow "Guhar Kusaln ", bringing him a large dowry (A.N. trs. p. 3^7 ; and Tarikhishcr-shahi, E. & D.'s History of India iv, 346).
5 He started from Chaparghatta (f. 361*, p. 650 n. 1). yil-turgi yurt.
"This must have been the Eclipse of the 10th of May 1528 ad. ; a fast is enjoined on the day of an eclipse " (Erskine).
