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,was also great slaughter, and a pillar of heads was raised. Mohan was captured and later on was buried to the waist and shot to death with arrows.1 News of the affair was sent to the Padshah.2
As after being in Sihrind, Babur is said to have spent two months hunting near Dihli, it may be that he followed up the punitive expedition sent into the Kaithal pargana of the Karnal District, by hunting in Nardak, a favourite ground of the Tlmurids, which lies in that district.
Thus the gap of 936 AH. with also perhaps a month of 937 AH. is filled by the "year's" travel west of Dihli. The record is a mere outline and in it are periods of months without mention of where Babur was or what affairs of government were brought before him. At some time, on his return journey presumably, he will have despatched to Kashmir the expedition referred to in the opening section of this appendix. Something further may yet be gleaned from local chronicles, from unwritten tradition, or from the witness of place-names commemorating his visit.
e. Babur's self-surrender to save Humayun.
The few months, perhaps 4 to 5, between Babur's return to Agra from his expedition towards the North-west, and the time of his death are filled by Gul-badan and Abu'1-fazl with matters concerning family interests only.
The first such matter these authors mention is an illness of Humayun during which Babur devoted his own life to save his son's.3 Of this the particulars are, briefly : That Humayun, while still in Sambhal, had had a violent attack of fever; that he was brought by water to Agra, his mother meeting him in
1 At this point the A.S.B. copy (No. 137) of the Tarlkh-i-salatin-i-afaghana has a remark which may have been a marginal note originally, and which cannot be supposed made by Ahmad-i-yadgar himself because this would allot him too long a spell of life. It may show however that the interpolations about the two Tlmurids were not inserted in his book by him. Its purport is that the Mundahir village destroyed by Babur's troops in 936AH. 1530AD. was still in ruins at the time it was written l6o(lunar) years later {i.e. in 1096 AH. 1684-85AD.). The better Codex (No. 3887) of the Imperial Library of Calcutta has the same passage. Both that remark and its context show acquaintance with Samana and Kaithal. The writings now grouped under the title Tarikh-i-salatin-i-afaghana present difficulties both as to date and contents (cf. Rieu's Persian Catalogue s. n.).
' Presumably in Tihrind.
3 Cf. G. B.'s H. N. trs. and the Akbar-nama Bib. Ind. ed. and trs., Index s.nn. ; Hughes' Dictionary of Islam s.n. Intercession.
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