Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.11.8

78.11.8

And after a time the head of the Khan Zaman was also brought in. And for some time there was a dispute, as to whether it were the Khan Zaman’s or no. At this juncture a petty Hindu Ray, Khan Zaman’s wakil, who was of the number of the prisoners, took up the head, and, putting it upon his own, began to lament: ‘Alas! alas!’ And Khwajah Daulat a eunuch, who had once been in Khan Zaman’s service, and had afterwards given in his adhesion to the Emperor, and had attained the title of Daulat Khan, said: “The way to find out whether the head is really that of Khan Zaman is this. He used always to chew betel-leaf on the right side [of his mouth], consequently his teeth on the right side will be black.” And so they found them. These affairs took place in the twelfth year of the reign, on the Monday in the first week of the month Zi-hijjah of the year nine hundred and seventy-four (974), in the neighbourhood of the village of Maakarwal, one of the dependencies of Pairag now known as Alahabas. And some, who had formerly thought good to accept service under Khan Zaman, and had therefrom sucked no small advantage, found this mnemosynon for the date of his death:—