The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 3.3.7

3.3.7

He, but not only he, had been through one hot season in the plains and another was approaching,—a discomposing fact, and one to wing the fancy and the feet to Kabul. He, however, left his son Ja'far in his government of Etawa, and returned to India himself in 1528. Humayun said farewell on April 16th, 1527, and betook himself to Dihli, where he broke open the treasury and stole its contents. If he had needed money to pay his men, his act might have taken different colour and have been leniently described, but he had had lavish gifts in money and kind from Babar, and had been allowed to keep the great diamond which the Rājā of Gwāliār had given him as the price of family honour and which, there is good ground to believe, is the Koh-i-nūr. Treated as he had been, his act was a crime, and base and mean. Perhaps it may be set to the credit of the older Humāyūn that the record of his theft has survived 1553-4 and his then perusal and annotation of his father’s Memoirs. By that time he had suffered many painful consequences of his own acts, and may have concurred with his father’s judgment on his younger self. Babar was extremely hurt by his unexpected conduct and reproached him severely. There was enough now known of Humāyūn’s character to awaken doubt of his fitness to rule, and to need all his father’s great affection to veil and forgive. From Dihlī he returned to Badakhshān, and is next heard of in the autumn of 1528, when he announced the birth of his first-born son, Al-amān.