Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.5.7

65.5.7

The story goes that one day Bairam Khan caused a garment to be made of handsome Kashmir shawls, and brought it to him. He took it in his hand and praised it, saying, “What a valuable thing this is!” Bairam Khan said, “As it is a suitable garment for a darvesh, I have brought it as an offering for you.” He thereupon made a sign with two of his fingers, as much as to say I have two of them, come give this one to some one more deserving of it than I. Many miraculous acts are related of him. Some few of these Shaikh the grandson of Maulānā Mu‘īn Wā‘iẓ, who by the order of the Khalīfah of the time was for some time Qāzī of Lāhor, wrote in a separate treatise: among them this is written, that when archery practice was going on, he used in opposition to his usual habits to come every day to the butts, and give instruction in archery. The youths used to urge and incite Bairām Khān to practise archery, saying that it would surely be useful to him some day. As a fact, the very first defeat of the Afghāns occurred in the fight at Māchīwāra, when the victory was entirely gained by the archers and in all probability that eagerness and instigation had this very end in view.