Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 63.17.7
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 63.17.7
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63.17.7
In the course of the same year, Sheikh Abool Fuzl was recalled from the Deccan; and that learned man was unfortunately attacked and cut off in the district of Nurwur, by banditti near Orcha. In the month of Suffur, 1013 of the Hijra, Meer Jumal-ood-Deen Hoossein, who had been deputed to Beejapoor, returned with the royal bride and the stipulated dowry. He delivered the young Sooltana to Daniel upon the banks of the Godavery, near Peitun, where the nuptials were celebrated with great magnificence; after which, Meer Jumal-ood-Deen Hoossein proceeded to join the King at Agra. On the 1st of Zehuj, of the year 1013, the Prince Daniel died, in the city of Boorhanpoor, owing to excess of drinking. His death, and the circumstances connected with it, so much affected the King, who was in a declining state of health, that he every day became worse, till, on the 13th of Jumad-oos-Sany, in the year 1014, he died, after a reign of fifty-one years and some months. Eternity belongeth only to that King to whom our worship is due. The words "The death of King Akbur," contain the numeral letters which comprise the date of his death.