935 AH. SEP. 15TH 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 683
{June 3rd) On Friday (26(A) we dismounted on a very slender stream, the head-water of a branch of the Parsaru. In order not to be disturbed by the comings and goings of the army-folk, I had it dammed higher up and had a place, 10 by 10, made for ablution. The night of the 27th 1 was spent on this ground.
{June 4-th) At the dawn of the same day (Saturday 2jth) we left that water, crossed the Tus and dismounted on its bank.2
(June Jth) On Sunday (28th) we dismounted on the bank of the same water.
(June 6th) On Monday the 29th of the month (Ramzan), our station was on the bank of the same Tus-water. Though tonight the sky was not quite clear, a few people saw the Moon, and so testifying to the Qazi, fixed the end of the month (Ramzan).
(June "Jth) On Tuesday (Shawwal 1st) we made the Prayer of the Festival, at dawn rode on, did lokurohs (20m.), and dismounted on the bank of the GuI (Gumtl), a kuroh (2 m.) from Malng.3 The sin of majun was committed (irtikab qilildi) near the Mid-day Prayer; I had sent this little couplet of invitation to Shaikh Zain, Mulla Shihab and Khwand-amlr :
(Turki) Shaikh and Mulla Shihab and Khwand-amlr, Come all three, or two, or one.
Darwlsh-i-muhammad (Sdrbdn), Yunas-i-'alT and 'Abdu'1-lah ('asas)* were also there. At the Other Prayer the wrestlers set to.
(June 8th) On Wednesday (2nd)we stayed on the same ground. Near breakfast-time ma'jun was eaten. Today Malik Sharq came in who had been to get Taj Khan out of Chunar.s When the wrestlers set to today, the Champion of Aiid who had come earlier, grappled with and threw a Hindustani wrestler who had come in the interval.
Today Yahya Nuhani was granted an allowance of \*,laks
* Islamice", Saturday night; Anglice, Friday after 6 p.m.
" This Tus, "Tousin, or Tons, is a branch from the Ghogra'coming off above Faizabad and joining the Sarju or Parsaru below 'Azamgarh" (Erskine).
3 Kehr's MS. p. 1132, Mang (or Mank) ; Hai. MS. Talk; I.O. 218 f. 328 B5:k; I. O. 217 f. 236,5, Biak. Maing in the Sultanpur district seems suitably located (D. C. oj' Sulianpur, p. 162).
4 This will be the night-guard {'asas); the librarian (kitabddr)\s in Sambhal. I.O. 218 f. 325 inserts kitabdar after 'Abdu'l-lah's name where he is recorded as sent to Sambhal (f. 375).
5 He will have announced to Taj Khan the transfer of the fort to Junaid BarlSs.
