Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.3.5

65.3.5

At the time when one night he was walking alone in that sacred enclosure, one of the pilgrims said in a low voice to his fellow, “This is not Humayun Padshah.” The other replied “Yes it is.” Then coming close, he said in the ear of Humayun “So you are again laying claim to omnipotence.” This was a reference to the circumstance that Humayun used generally in Bangala to cast a veil over his crown, and when he removed it the people used to say, Light has shined forth! He also washed his sword in the river and said “Upon whom shall I gird the sword?” When he arrived at Agra he imposed upon the populace a new self-invented form of salutation, and wished them to kiss the ground (before him). At last Mir Abul Baqa with the Amirs and Vazirs paid the due respects, and the Amirs of the Qizilbash coming (by another road) arrived at Garmsir and took possession of the whole of that territory, and had encamped within view of Qandahar, when after five days Humayun arrived, and Mirza ‘Askari was besieged, and for three months continuously fighting was kept up, and a large number were daily killed on both sides. Thereupon Bairam Khan sent to Kabul as an ambassador to Mirza Kamran in whose behalf Mirza ‘Askari was acting, and Mirza Hindal and Mirza Sulaiman Badakhshi and Yadgar Nasir who had arrived from Bhakkar in a wretched plight; and [since] the idea of the Qizilbash was that no sooner would Humayun arrive than the Chaghtai would submit to him and would all come in.