In Sihrind the Raja of Kahlur, a place which may be one of the Simla hill-states, waited on Babur, made offering of 7 falcons and 3 mans1 of gold, and was confirmed in his fief.2
In Lahor Kamran is said to have received his Father, in a garden of his own creation, and to have introduced the local chiefs as though he were the Governor of Lahor some writers describe him as then being. The best sources, however, leave him still posted in Qandahar. He had been appointed to Multan (f. 359) when 'Askari was summoned to Agra (f. 339), but whether he actually went there is not assured; some months later (Zu'1-hijja 10th 935 AH.) he is described by Abu'1-fazl as coming to Kabul from Qandahar. He took both Multan 3 and Lahor by force from his (half-)bfother Humayun in 93 5 AH. (1531 AD.) the year after their Father's death. That he should wait upon his Father in Lahor would be natural, Hind-al did so, coming from Kabul. Hind-al will have come to Lahor after making over charge of Qila'-i-zafar to Sulaiman,and he went back at the end of the cold season, going perhaps just before his Father started from Lahor on his return journey, the gifts he received before leaving being 2 elephants, 4 horses, belts and jewelled daggers.4
Babur is said to have left Lahor on Rajab 4th (936 AH.) March 4th, 15 30 AD.). From Ahmad-i-yadgar's outline of Babur's doings in Lahor, he, or his original, must be taken as ill-informed
pleasure only, and describes Babur as hunting and sight-seeing for a year in Lahor, the Panj-ab and near Dihll. This appears a mere flourish of words, in view of the purposes the expedition served, and of the difficulties which had arisen in Lahor itself and with Sa'id Khan. Part of the work effected may have been the despatch of an expedition to Kashmir.
1 This appears a large amount.
* The precision with which the Raja's gifts are stated, points to a closely-contemporary and written source. A second such indication occurs later where gifts made to Hind-al are mentioned.
3 An account of the events in Multan after its occupation by Shah Hasan Arghun is found in the latter part of the Tabaqat-i-akbari and in Erskine's H. of I. i, 393 et stq. It may be noted here that several instances of confusion amongst Babur's sons occur in the extracts made by Sir H. Elliot and Professor Dowson in their History of India from the less authoritative sources [e.g. v, 35 Kamran for Humayun, 'Askari said to be in Kabul (pp. 36 and 37) ; Hind-al for Humayun etc.'] and that these errors nave slipped into several of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces.
* As was said of the offering made by the Raja of Kahlur, the precision of statement as to what was given to Hind-al, bespeaks a closely-contemporary written source. So too does the mention (text, infra) of the day on which Babur began his return journey from Lahor.
