The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.6.7

3.6.7

He ascended the throne in his 14th year. Hemu, the infidel whom the Afghan ruler had raised to high station, collected a wonderful force after King Humayun's death, with a stud of elephants such as no ruler of Hindustan had at that time, and he went towards Delhi. Humayun had appointed Akbar to drive off some of the Afghans from the foot-hills of the Panjab, but just then he exemplified the hemistich which is a description of the accident and the chronogram of his death — "The august monarch (Humayun) fell from the roof. The news (of the death) was conveyed to my father by Nazar-jivi." Bairam Khan, who was then his tutor, having collected the nobles who were in the province, chose an auspicious hour and seated him on the throne of rule in pargana Kalanur, near Lahore. When Hemu reached the neighbourhood of Delhi, Tardi Beg Khan and a large force that was in the city drew up to oppose him. When the preparations for the combat had been made the armies attacked one another, and, after considerable endeavours and strife, defeat fell on Tardi Beg Khan and the Moguls, "and the army of darkness overcame the army of light. " All things and battles and fights are of God, He knows whose will be the victory. From the blood of the brave and the dust of the troops, The earth grew red and the heavens black. " Tardi Beg Khan and the other defeated ones took the road to my revered father's camp. As Bairam Khan disliked Tardi Beg, he made this defeat an excuse to put him to death.