The Memoirs of Bābur 935.10.1

935.10.1

(_April 15th_) Next day, Friday (_7th_), no move was made. Muḥammad-i-zamān M. who, his preparations for Bihār complete, had dismounted one or two _kurohs_ from the camp, came today to take leave of me.[2570] (_xx. News of the army of Bengal._) Two spies, returned from the Bengal army, said that Bengalīs[2571] under Makhdūm-i-`ālam were posted in 24 places on the Gandak and there raising defences; that they had hindered the Afghāns from carrying out their intention to get their families across the river (Ganges?), and had joined them to themselves.[2572] This news making fighting probable, we detained Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā, and sent Shāh Iskandar to Bihār with 3 or 400 men. (_yy. Incidents of the eastward march resumed._) [Sidenote: Fol. 368b.] (_April 16th_) On Saturday (_8th_) a person came in from Dūdū and her son Jalāl Khān (son) of Bihār Khān[2573] whom the Bengalī (Naṣrat Shāh) must have held as if eye-bewitched.[2574] After letting me know they were coming,[2575] they had done some straight fighting to get away from the Bengalīs, had crossed the river,[2576] reached Bihār, and were said now to be on their way to me. This command was given today for the Bengal envoy Ismā`īl Mītā:—Concerning those three articles, about which letters have already been written and despatched, let him write that an answer is long in coming, and that if the honoured (Naṣrat Shāh) be loyal and of single-mind towards us, it ought to come soon.