The Rashīdī History 3.5.7

3.5.7

General Briggs' version of Firishta records, quite briefly, that Mirza Haidar had appointed one Kiran Bahadur, a commander of Moghul horse, to the government of the district of Bhirbal. The measure gave great offence to the inhabitants, who resisted Kiran's authority, and eventually proceeded to attack him. Mirza Haidar, in order to support his officer, put himself at the head of his Moghuls, and marched towards the scene of the disturbance. On the road, a night attack was made upon his camp, the Moghuls were defeated, and he himself was killed by an arrow in the course of the fight. The exact date of the event in 1551 is nowhere recorded, but it would appear to have taken place on one of the last days of Ramzan, or about the beginning of October. In Mr. Rodgers' version, the circumstances are related in much greater detail, but some of the particulars are not quite intelligible. The substance, however, is the same, and the account makes it appear that the locality where Mirza Haidar fell, must have been somewhere near Baramula on the Jhilam. It points also to his death having been caused through being accidentally struck by an arrow, discharged by one of his own men, in the darkness.