The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22.5.3

22.5.3

When a child of four years of age falls headlong from a place ten ordinary (shar'ī) gaz in height, and no harm happens to his limbs, it is a cause for amazement. Having performed my prostrations for this fresh act of goodness, I distributed alms, and ordered that deserving people and the poor who lived in the city should be brought before me in order that I might assure them their means of livelihood. A strange thing was that three or four months before this event Jotik Rāy, the astrologer, who is one of the most skilled of the class in astrology, had represented to me, without any intermediary, that it was predicted from the Prince’s horoscope that these three or four months were unpropitious to him, and it was possible he might fall down from some high place, but that the dust of calamity would not settle on the skirt of his life. As his prognostications had repeatedly proved correct, this dread dwelt in my mind, and on these dangerous roads and difficult mountain passes I was never for a moment forgetful of that nursling of the parterre of Fortune. I continually kept him in sight, and took the greatest precautions with regard to him. When I arrived in Kashmir this unavoidable catastrophe occurred. His nurses (anagahan) and wet-nurses must have been very careless. God be praised that it ended well! In the garden of ‘Aishabad (abode of pleasure) I saw a tree which had numerous blossoms. They were very large and beautiful, but the apples that the tree produced were bitter.