Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.39.3

78.39.3

At last the country people of the neighbourhood came up, and said, ‘Last year at this very spot a royal elephant became bogged. Let them pour a quantity of water on the clay and mud, and then the royal elephant will come out easily enough.’ Accordingly the water-carriers did so, and poured a quantity of water on, and the elephant became gradually extricated from the quagmire, and got to Amber; and the exultation of those people reached the very heavens. The Author remained there three for four days, and then proceeded on his journey, by way of the town of Todah, which is his birth-place, and Basawar which bears this relation to him, that : — ‘In that land his skin first touched the dust.’ And during the first days of the month Rabi'ul-awwal, by the intervention of Raja Bhagvan Das, father of Raja Man Singh, I prostrated myself in Audience-chamber at Fathpur, and delivered the despatches of the Amirs, together with the elephant. The Emperor asked : ‘What is its name?’ I replied : ‘Ram-prasad.’ His Majesty replied : Since all this [success] has been brought about through the Pir, its name henceforth shall be Pir-prasad.