Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.46.8

78.46.8

On the second Friday of this month the Emperor assembled the poor and the deserving in the chaugan-field, and came in person to the place. Nearly a lac of persons, men and women, were present in that enclosure. And Sultan Khwajah the Qazi, and Qulij Khan presented to each a piece of gold. On that day of assembly eighty persons, women and children, were crushed to death under the hands and feet. And from the girdles of some of the women, whose husbands had died in Bengal, there fell purses full of ashrafis and rupees. This affair caused great suspicion to arise as to the poor. An order was issued, that in future but few persons should be brought together at once, but he soon laid aside these also. In these same days the Emperor appointed Qutb-ud-din Muhammad Khan Atgah as tutor to the eldest prince, and held a great levee. The tutor as is customary on such occasions presented the Emperor with notable elephants, and other presents worthy of his new post, and taking the prince upon his shoulders he ordered dish-fulls of gold and jewels to be scattered to the people. In this year an ambassador of ‘Abd-ullah Khan Uzbek came from Transoxiana with a letter containing assurances of friendship. The Emperor sent Mirza Fulad Barlas, with Khwajah Khatib, who was a native of Bokhara, to accompany him with presents and gifts. And the seal of the letter was as follows:— “When we are friends with one another, Sea and land are free from confusion and evil.”