Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.27.4

78.27.4

Having repaired the wreck and ruin of the fortress of Patnah, without even drawing his sword, or a single arrow being fitted to the bow, he shut himself up in the fortress. But on account of his drunkenness and injustice his people deserted from him, until the Emperor at the aforementioned date appointed Mirza Yusuf Khan to the command of the army and sent him forward by land, and left Shahab-ud-din Ahmad Khan in charge of A'grah, and himself set off by river. The following ruba'i was composed on the occasion : — The justice-distributing and religion-protecting Emperor The world-conquering Jamshid Muhammad Akbar, Sat on the bank of the sea ; like Sikandar Both sea and land became subject to him. The Emperor took his eldest son with him. The face of the water was hidden by the number of boats and vessels (P. 176). And through the congratulations of the Kharwahas, who are a sort of sailors used to the river, and through their shouts and cries in the language peculiar to them, the birds of the air and the fish of the water were well nigh made to dance. And such a spectacle presented itself as no words can possibly describe. Every day the Emperor used to disembark and occupy himself in hunting, and at night he would cast anchor, and would spend it in searching into science and poetry, and in recitals and repetitions.