The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 5.4.4

5.4.4

On Thursday, Muharram 3rd, 1015, in Mirza Kamran's garden, they brought Khusrau before me with his hands tied and chains on his legs from the left side after the manner and custom of Chingiz Khan. They made Husain Beg stand on his right hand and 'Abdu-r-rahim on his left. Khusrau stood weeping and trembling between them. Husain Beg, with the idea that it might profit him, began to speak wildly. When his purport became apparent to me I did not allow him to continue talking, but handed over Khusrau in chains, and ordered these two villains to be put in the skins of an ox and an ass, and that they should be mounted on asses with their faces to the tail and thus taken round the city. As the ox-hide dried more quickly than that of the ass, Husain Beg remained alive for four watches and died from suffocation. 'Abdu-r-Rahim, who was in the ass's skin and to whom they gave some refreshment from outside, remained alive.