Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.27.6

78.27.6

He laid the foundations of a great building, and left the name of that city Iláhábád. From Banáras he sent Shér Bég Tawáchí in a very swift vessel to the Khán Khánán. And on the second of the month Rabí‘-uṣ-ṣání from a place called Yaliyápúr, one of the environs of Jounpúr, which is the meeting-place of the waters of the Ganges and the Gowadí, he had the boats of the Prince, with the ladies of the harem, and the judges and justices, towed against the stream of the Gowadí and sent to Jounpúr. He himself went up the river two or three days’ journey, and then returning in accordance with a request of the Khán Khánán in the greatest haste towards the Ganges, he gave rein to his river-drinking crocodiles. At this halting-place news arrived of the death of Sultán Maḥmúd of Bakkar, and of Muḥib ‘Alí Khán’s having taken possession of that kingdom. On the 16th of the aforesaid month the army arrived by land at the environs of the city of Gházípúr, and at this halting-place (P. 177) I‘timád Khán, Khwájah Saráí, came to the Emperor from the Khán Khánán and related at length the state of the army of the Khán Khánán, and pressed him to make as much haste as possible. On the seventh of this month Sayyid Mírak Iṣpahání a man learned in charms, who after the defeat of Khán Zamán had lived at Jounpúr, at the instigation of Naqíb Khán studied a great book of sortilege, and when he had selected the letters and arranged and compounded them, the following verse came out as the omen : —