Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.38.1

78.38.1

In the month Rabī‘ul-awwal of this year Mirzā Muhammad Sharīf, son of Mīr ‘Abd-ul-Latīf Qazwīnī, who was a young man of the very greatest ability, and clearness of intellect, and possessed of a sweet disposition, and a sweet voice, and endowed with all sorts of perfections, while playing at Chaugan with the Emperor in the open space of Fathpūr, fell from his horse, and immediately gave up his soul to the Beloved. And a great cry arose in the city and neighbourhood, and this report spread on all sides. The Emperor was an eye-witness of this accident, and did not know what to do. Meanwhile Qutb-ud-din Muhammad Atgah seized the rein of his Majesty’s horse, and said: “My Lord, what are you doing here ? go away.” And so he turned his rein towards the palace. Then he sent farmans with assurances of the soundness of his health and strength to the Amirs of the frontiers, so that the panic was stayed Of the number of these farmans one arrived at Kokandah, addressed to Man Singh, and Asaf Khan, with the contents aforesaid. And so that grief of ours was changed into rejoicing. During the first part of the month Rabi‘ul-awwal of the year nine hundred and eighty-four (984) took place the victory of Kokandah. And the following is a succinct account of it. When Man Singh and Asaf Khan with the army of Ajmir, on their way to Mandalgarh, arrived by forced marches at the town of Larah, seven cosses from Kokandah, the Rana came out to oppose them.