Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.3.1

65.3.1

Mirza ‘Askari just then arrived at the royal camp, and alighting and tearing the veil of humanity from the face of modesty, set about appropriating the valuables. He also placed Tardi Beg in rigorous confinement, and carried off the young Prince to Qandahar, and handed him over to Sultan Begam, his own wife, with injunctions to take every care for his kind treatment and protection. In that journey important events took place which, although they were fully and elaborately detailed in the original, do not admit of relation in this place, and must be rapidly passed over as he did that long stretch of road. These events took place in the year 950 H. (1543 A.D.). In short, leaving Sistan and journeying to the city of Khurasan, he had an interview with Sultan Muhammad Mirza, the elder son of Shah Tahmasp, who held the rule of that country under the tutelage of Muhammad Khan Taklu, and receiving all the necessaries of royalty, and requisites for his journey, with all honour and ceremony reached the sacred city of Mashhad (Meshed); and at each successive stage, by order of the Shah, the governors of the provinces hastened to welcome him, and made all preparations for entertaining him and shewing him hospitality, escorting him from stage to stage. Bairam Khan proceeded to do homage to the Shah, and brought with him thence a letter congratulating Humayun upon his arrival. The two monarchs met at Pulaq-Suriq and exchanged the customary honours and courtesies.