Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 216.4

216.4

During a pause in the conversation, the Portuguese dogs made some preconcerted signals to each other. The King perceived that he was betrayed, and that fortune and prosperity had turned their backs on him. His officers addressed him and said, ‘Did not we tell you before that we should all be ruined?’ He replied, ‘If so, fate has ordained it.’ The King now arose, and was attacked on all sides by the Portuguese. They say he was near his own boat, when a Portuguese soldier struck him over the head with a sword, and threw him into the water. Those persons who were with him also shared in the honour of martyrdom. “This event happened on the 3d of the month of Rumzan, A. H. 943, (14th of February, A. D. 1537,) and has been commemorated in the following words, comprising the numerals which form the date of the year wherein it occurred; which chronogram was composed by the minister Yekhtiar Khan: — yo! Mes p) (- sled “‘The king of the land became a martyr at sea.’ “Bahadur Shah was twenty years of age when he ascended the throne, he reigned eleven years, and was, consequently, thirty-one years old when he was killed.”