Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.2.5

78.2.5

“The army’s greatest Khan, A‘zam Khan, Whose equal none saw in this age, Went to martyrdom in the month of fasting, He drank fasting the draught of death. Would that he had been martyred one year later, For then the year of his death would have been Khan Shahid.” In this year my late, lamented, father (may God have mercy on him !), the Shaikh Mulūkshāh, on the 27th of Rajab in Āgrah, through liver-complaint, transferred the baggage of existence from this transitory world to the eternal kingdom. I carried his corpse in a coffin to Basāwar and buried him there. I found the date as follows : — “The Title-page of the Excellent of the world, Mulūkshāh, That Sea of Knowledge, that Source of Generosity, and Mine of Excellence, Since in his time there proceeded from him a very World of Excellence, The date of the year of his death comes out : a World of Excellence.” And by a curious coincidence the Pīr, who had been his patron, viz. Shaikh Panjū Sambhalī, who had a great following, and a few of whose excellencies will be mentioned, if God will, in the sequel to this work, in this same year attained union with the True Beloved, and the following was found to give the date : — “ The Perfection of Truth and Religion, Shaikh Panjū, Whose place the Garden of Paradise became, By way of enigma the date of his death Is got out from his heart-attracting Name.” Another mnemosynon for the date is Darwīsh dānishmand “ the Learned Dervish” (may God have mercy on him !).