Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.1.7

65.1.7

he had entirely given up the use of intoxicants, and the day he left the world the treacherous time even grudged him two yards of cloth, and it was never known where his corpse went. Verse. Oh ye lords of wealth beware! beware! And you, ye lords of state, beware! beware! After him, the kingdom fell away from the race of Afghans and returned to its original holders, and right once more became established. In this year, 948 H., Humayun married Hamida Banu Begam, and coming to Patar returned to Lohri. Mirza Hindal started for Qandahar in answer to the summons of Qaracha Beg, the governor of that district, and Yadgar Nasir Mirza, who had encamped at a distance of ten krohs from (Humayun’s) camp also intended to proceed to Qandahar. Humayun thereupon sent Mir Abul-Baqa, who was one of the most distinguished of the learned men of the time, Persian commentator on Mir Saiyyid Sharif, and author of other compositions, to advise him and dissuade him from his purpose. At the time of crossing the river a party sallied out from the fortress of Bakkar and rained showers of arrows upon the people in the boats. The sainted Mir was struck by the soul-melting arrow of Fate, and was drowned in the ocean of martyrdom. This event took place in the year 948 H. and the chronogram Surur-i-kainat was invented to commemorate it.