Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 223.3.7

223.3.7

When death had sealed the glorious Hooshung’s fate, And he prepared to tread on Lethe’s shore, I asked a poet to record the date, Who briefly said, ‘* Shah Hooshung is no more.” The author of his history relates, that water constantly ouses from the sides of his vault, between the apertures of the masonry, which falls in drops; that this phenomenon ceases in the four rainy months, but is unremitting in the dry season; which is absurdly attributed, by the natives of India, to the supernatural intervention of Sooltan Hooshung, for whose death, say they, ‘‘ the rocks even appear to shed tears.”