The Book of Akbar 172.1.1

172.1.1

When M. Hindal had the khutba read in his name and came before his mother, that cupola of chastity had a blue cloth over her breast. The Mīrza said, “What kind of dress is that you have donned at such a time of rejoicing?” That cupola of chastity replied, out of her foresight, “Why do you regard me? I am wearing mourning for you; you are young (he was only 19) and have, from the instigation of irreflecting sedition-mongers, lost the true way; you have girded your loins for your own destruction.” Muhammad Bakhshī came and said, “You have killed the Shaikh; why do you delay about me?” The Mirza treated him kindly and took him with him. When Yādgār Nāsir Mīrza and Mīr Faqr ‘Alī heard of this bad business they made a rapid march from Kālpī via Gwālyār, and coming to Dihlī took measures to strengthen the city and to provide for the fort. The Mīrza had reached Hamīdpur, near Fīrozābād when the news came that Yādgār Nāsir Mīrza and Mīr Faqr ‘Alī had arrived at Dihlī. The Mīrza and the officers consulted together and proceeded to invest Dihlī. Many of the petty jāgīrdārs round about came and did homage to the Mīrza, and he made march after march and besieged Dihlī. Yādgār Nāsir Mīrza and Mīr Faqr ‘Alī exerted themselves in holding the fort, and sent an account of affairs to M. Kāmrān and begged him to come and quell the sedition. He set out from Lahor and when he came near Sonpat, M. Hindāl hurried off to the province of Agra without having accomplished his purpose. When M.