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The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 5.2.6

The History of Humāyūn (A. S. Beveridge) 5.2.6

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5.2.6

In 1566 he and Haram and their girls were again before the coveted Kabul, and on this occasion Haram tried to supplement their failing military action by treachery. She got Sulaiman to lay an ambush for Muhammad Hakim, whom, with 'awful oaths' of amity, she had persuaded to have a meeting with her under profession of desire to adopt him now that her son Ibrahim was dead. The end of this affair was, in net result to the Badakhshis, nothing; Haram went home and Sulaiman followed. With them went the unfailing daughters, of whom Haram seems to have had many, or who were betrothed and not ‘entrusted,’ so many recorded times. They had been near capture by the Kâbulîs in the Four-Walled Garden, but the commandant of the city recalled his men and let the girls go free, because he did not think it seemly to capture women.