Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.4.6

65.4.6

The Sardars and Amirs, on account of the heat of the contest in which they were engaged, began to traffic in hypocrisy, and kept coming backwards and forwards, now in one direction now in another. Many of them on both sides were killed. At last, Mirza, having made a hole in the wall of the fort, came out in disguise, and when Haji Muhammad Khan, who had been detailed with a party of men to pursue him, came up with Mirza, Mirza said to him "What if I have killed your father Baba Qashqa?" Haji Muhammad Khan, who was a veteran soldier, energetic and experienced, pretending not to understand him, returned, and the Prince reached his father Humayun safe and sound, and the part returned to the whole. Mayest thou live a thousand years, and a thousand years beside, For in the prolongation of thy life are a thousand advantages. And Mirza Kamran took refuge with Pir Muhammad Khan, Governor of Balkh, and asking his assistance seized certain of the provinces of Badakhshan without a struggle from Suleiman Mirza and his son Ibrahim Mirza, and took possession of them, and Qaracha Khan, who had done notable service, together with certain other grasping Amirs, entertained extravagant expectations from Humayun, and when their iniquitous desires were not realised betook themselves to Badakhshan and Kabul. Within these few years the earth had quitted its accustomed state of repose, and had undergone tremblings and agitations. A certain witty writer says with reference to this: