The Book of Akbar 143.3

143.3

A wonderful thing was that his Majesty Giti-sitani was sitting at table and talking with his (Jahanbani's) mother about him when suddenly the shining star emerged from the ascension-point of Badakhshan. Their hearts were rejoiced and their eyes brightened. Each day of princes is a feast but that day, by the advent of his Highness Jahanbani, was made a feast such as cannot be described. Mirza Haidar writes in his Tarikh-i-rashidi that his Highness Jahanbani came to Hindustan in 935 (1528-29) at the summons of his Majesty Giti-sitani and that he left Faqr ‘Ali in Badakhshan. At this time the darling (lit. eye-pupil) of the Sultanate, Mirza Anwar had just died and his Majesty was deeply grieved on that account. The coming of his Highness Jahanbani was therefore a great comfort to his heart. His Highness Jahanbani remained for a while in attendance on him and the Emperor many times declared that Humayun was an incomparable companion. In fact the name of Insan-i-kamil (Perfection of Humanity) might well be applied to that majestic one. When he left Badakhshan for India, Sultan Said Khan, who was the Khan of Kashghar and was related to his Majesty and who, moreover, had been in his service and had received favours and instruction from him,—being stimulated to crude imaginations by messages from Sultan Vais and other Amirs of Badakhshan, left Rashid Khan (his son) in Yarkand and marched against Badakhshan.