Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.9.4

61.9.4

One of his magnanimous acts was the following. On his arrival at Kālpī in the company of Shīr Shāh he gave two lāhs of rupees to the sweetmeat sellers of that city so that they might send sugarcane to Rantanbhor without intermission. In the same way also he gave money to all the mango gardens of Baīāna, so that they might send mangoes day after day to the halting-places for the poor and necessitous. In the meantime Shīr Shāh died, and Salīm Shāh appointed persons who recovered the sum of twenty-four thousand rupees which remained of that money, and on receiving it put it into the treasury. In this same year Shaikh ‘Abdu-l-haiyy, the son of Shaikh Jamālī Kanbawī of Dihlī, who was adorned with excellencies of science and poetry, and was a devout man, and the boon companion and specially favoured intimate of Islīm Shāh, delivered up the life entrusted to his keeping, and Saiyyid Shāh Mīr of Āgra invented the following chronogram:— He said:— My name in itself would furnish the tārīkh At such time as ‘abd (the slave) was not in the midst of it. Among the events which happened during the time that Islīm Shāh was encamped at Bīn was the following.