The Book of Akbar 161.5

161.5

For instance, on one occasion a person appeared in the Deccan whom the Nizāmu-l-Mulk acknowledged, and played Caugan (polo) with. A crowd gathered round him, and the Nizam perceiving this resolved to put him to death. On that same night he disappeared from his tent, and people concluded that the Nizam had destroyed him. One day Mir Abū Turāb who is one of the Gujrat grandees, related that Mulla Qutbu-d-dīn of Shīrāz, who was Sultan Bahadur’s preceptor, was at that time in the Deccan and that he took an oath that the man was certainly Sultan Bahadur, and that he had spoken to him of certain matters only known to themselves, and had received intelligent replies. It cannot be said that in the wide kingdom of God’s power such things are impossible. In fine, when Sultan Bahadur had thus disappeared in the sea, and his officers were sitting in the dust (i.e., were in mourning).