The Book of Akbar 128.3

128.3

In the beginning of this year there was a great earthquake in Kabul and its environs. The ramparts of the fort and many buildings in the citadel and city fell down. All the houses in the village of Pemghan fell down and there were three-and-thirty shocks in one day and for a month the earth shook two or three times day and night. Many persons lost their lives, and between Pemghan and Baktub a piece of ground a stone's throw in breadth separated itself and descended the length of a bowshot and springs burst out from the breach. From Istirghac to Maidan, a distance of six farsangs, (cir. 24 m.) the ground was so contorted that part of it rose as high as an elephant. In the beginning of the earthquake, clouds of dust rose from the tops of the mountains. In the same year there was a great earthquake in India.