The Book of Akbar 228.10

228.10

His Majesty, after making categorical statements (of his offences) and after royal reproofs, directed Ibrāhīm Īshak Āqā and others to confine him in the Kābul citadel (the Bālā Ḥiṣār) near the room where M. 'Askarī was imprisoned. One of the things that happened at this time was the death of Caghatai Sulṭān, who was a young Mogul prince and the unique of the age for beauty and character. His Majesty Jahānbānī regarded him with affection and distinguished him by favours. He felt his loss deeply, but reflecting on the Divine decree which hath assigned existence absolute to the other world, and to this world only contingent existence, he wisely took refuge in submission and self-surrender. Mir Amani uttered this chronogram. Verse. Sultan Caghatal was the rose of Beauty's rosarium. Of a sudden, Death led him to paradise. In the rose-season he designed leaving this garden. Hearts were ingulphed in blood from grief for this likeness of a rosebud, I sought his date from the bereaved nightingale, Sighing he said “The rose hath left the garden."