[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [Akbarnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge) › 269 # The Book of Akbar 269: CHAPTER LX. The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 269 - **Language:** English ### [269](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.269) who was a mine of gratitude, was so affected and sorrowful at the death of so noble a brother that his feelings cannot be described or hinted at. But as he was wise and farseeing, he turned from lamentation to resignation and sought comfort in the pleasant abode of submission to the Divine Will. The account of this melancholy affair is as follows. When M. Hindal heard of the projected night attack he put the entrenchments in order, and he had gone to take some repose, when the noise of the Afghans arose. An undescribable number of Afghans came into each battery, and many entered the Mirza’s. The night was dark. The Mirza addressed himself to the repulsing of the wretches, while his own men were confused and hastened to look after their horses. Meanwhile the Mirza came face to face with the Afghans. Nurm Kuka and many others behaved badly. The time for using bow and arrow passed and he grappled with one of the foe, and by main force overthrew the born villain. The brother of that wretch, Jaranda by name and belonging to the Mahmand tribe, sent the Mirza to the other world by a poison-stained spear. Some of M. Kamran’s companions used to relate that that evil-natured Afghan got hold of a case which contained the Mirza’s special thumb-stalls and brought it before M. Kamran, not knowing with whom he had played this disastrous game. He described the occurrence. When the Mirza’s eye fell on the thumb-stall case, he knew what misfortune had happened and flung his turban on the ground, saying that M. Hindal had been martyred. In short the soul of the Mirza travelled on that dark night to the abode of annihilation without its being known, and his body remained where it fell. Meanwhile some of his servants were coming back, when Khw. Ibrahim Badakhshi observed that there was a black cuirass (qalmaq) on the body. As it was dark and the tumult still continued, he did not approach it. Then it occurred to him that M. Hindal had been wearing a black cuirass. He turned round and looked at it and recognised the Mirza. In accordance with patience and deliberation which are the watchwords of the wise, he carried off the body to the Mirza's tent and made it over to the doorkeepers; and he wisely took steps to conceal the melancholy occurrence so that the enemy might not rejoice nor be encouraged, and also that the imperial servants might not be disheartened. He reported that the Mīrzā was much fatigued, and was also slightly wounded, and that no one should make any noise or tumult close by. He himself went up on the rising ground and conveyed congratulations on the victory as from the Mirza. The illuminated soul of His Majesty Jahānbānī received a ray of intelligence from this statement. In fine the Mīrzā's bier was deposited in Jūī Shāhī, and after some time was brought to Kabul. The body was placed in the Guzargah, near the holy tomb of His Majesty Getī-sitānī Firdaus-makānī, and buried at his feet. Mulla Khurd Zargar who was in the Mīrzā's service, composed an elegy of which the first couplet was,— Verse. One night sorrow made a night-attack on the apple of mine eye, Owing to the onset of blood, my beloved departed. This chronogram is also his,— Verse. Hindal Muhammad, a king of glorious title, Suddenly, in the dead of night, became a martyr, As a night-attack (shabkhun) caused his martyrdom, Seek the chronogram from shabkhun (958). Mir Amani uttered this enigmatical chronogram,— Verse. A cypress left the garden of glory. The Mirza was born in 924 (1518) and so it was said:— Verse. The chronogram was kaukab-i-burj-i-shahanshahi (924), (the kaukab of the king of kings’ tower). Next day His Majesty Jahanbani went from there to Bihsud, where he encamped in order that he might, once for all, set his world-adorning heart at rest with respect to the strife of the seditious and then make Kabul, by the glory of his sublime court, an abode of peace and tranquillity. - [Previous: 268](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.268) - [Next: 270.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.270.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.269](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.269) · Pramāṇa