Muntakhab al-tawarikh 56.2.8

56.2.8

The slain lay in heaps, while those who escaped death by the sword became the portion for kites and ravens. A period of two qarns has elapsed since this event up to the time of the composition of this Muntakhab, but up to the present, the noise of conflict and shouts of combatants proceeding from that field of battle reach the ears of travellers at night. In the year 997 H. (1588 A.D.) the writer of these pages was proceeding one day at early morning from the city of Lahor towards Fathpur, and had to cross that plain, when these terrifying noises reached his ears, and the people who were with him imagined that some enemy was upon them. I also witnessed with my own eyes what I had heard related. Submitting this divine mystery to the Almighty we went on our way. Sultan Ibrahim together with a party of attendants was taken in an unknown desert and put to the sword, his head was brought into the presence of Babar Padishah, and about five or six thousand who formed Sultan Ibrahim's retinue were put to death in the one spot. Verse. It is plainly evident to thee that this dark world is a snare of calamity. Thou knowest now that the world is full of guile, and desperately deceitful. That man from fear of whom no one would enter the water He himself is drowned in the ocean, an ocean without bounds.