The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.7.6

3.7.6

A strange circumstance was this: on the day before the battle, when the king was eating, he asked Hazara, who was learned in the science of looking at the shoulder-blades (a kind of divination), to see on whose side the victory would be. Hazara said: "The victory will be on your side, but one of the chiefs of your army will become a martyr." Whereupon Saif Khan Koka said, "Would that this blessing might fall to my lot!" "Many an omen that we have treated as jest Became true when the star passed by."