Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.20.6

78.20.6

In the year nine hundred and eighty (980) the conquest of Gujrat took place. The substance of the affair is as follows. Gujrat had fallen into the greatest confusion, and had been broken up into different petty governments, so the Emperor issued an order for the assembling of the army and made a firm determination to reduce that country to subjection. On the 20th of Çafar he set out from the Capital, and on the 15th of Rabi’lawwal the city of Ajmir became the abode of the imperial cavalcade. After visiting the sacred mausoleum of that Summary of the line of Chistis, the saint Mu’inuddin Chisti (God sanctify his tomb, and their tombs !), the next day he proceeded to circumambulate the tomb of Mir Sayyid Husain Khang-sawar, and this verse was composed in his honour: — “Thanks to God that a clear light hath shone into the heart From Husain bin ‘Ali bin Husain bin ‘Ali.” And he went up to the top of that hill. Then he sent forward Mir Muhammad, Khan Kalan, with 10,000 horse as vanguard, and himself by consecutive days marching arrived on the 9th of the month Jamadiddawwal at Nagor. During the night of Wednesday the second of this month the birth of the prosperous Prince Daniyal took place at Ajmir in the house of one Shaikh Daniyal by name, a holy sojourner. This good news was brought to the Emperor at two days’ journey from Nagor. (F. 140). The Emperor named him Daniyal after the said Shaikh Daniyal. The following is the mnemosynon for the date:—