The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 3.4.1

3.4.1

On December 12th other signs of dignity were bestowed on the boy 'Askari not only a jewelled dagger, a belt, and royal dress of honour, but the insignia of high command, the standard, horse-tail, and kettle drums, excellent horses, ten elephants, mules and camels, the equipage of a royal camp, and leave to hold a princely court and sit at the head of a hall of state The small boy's mind is clear to us about the horses, for where is the child of twelve whom they would not delight ? But what was in it about the elephants ? and how did he look when he inspected their bulky line ? He bade farewell to his father on the 21st, — the Emperor being in his bath, a statement which exhales the East, — and after this, though there are many details of his campaigning, nothing of living interest is set down in the Memoirs about him In the future he was Kamran's shadow, and displayed a loyalty to mother-blood which was natural under the difficulty of being loyal to Humayun, but which made him a Timurid foe to his house, who initiated nothing and walked always in the bad path marked out for him by the ‘worthy and correct' Kamran