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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 6.6.5

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 6.6.5

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6.6.5

On Thursday, the 22nd, having gone to the Bala Hisar, I inspected the buildings in that place. As the place was not fit for me I ordered them to destroy these buildings and to prepare a palace and a royal hall of audience. On the same day they brought a peach from Istalif, barabar sar-i-buh bakaldni, " as big as an owl's head^?). I had not seen a peach of such a size, and ordered it to be weighed, and it came to 63 Akbari rupees, or 60 tolas. When I cut it in half its stone also came into two pieces, and its substance was sweet. I had in Kabul never eaten better fruit from any tree. On the 25th news came from Malwa that Mirza Shahrukh had bid farewell to this transitory world, and God Almighty had submerged him in His mercy. From the day on which he entered the service of my revered father till the time of his departure, from no act of his could dust be brought into the royal mind. He always did his duty with sincerity. The aforesaid Mirza apparently had four sons: Hasan and Husain were born of the same womb (i.e. they were twins). Husain fled from Burhanpur and went by sea to Iraq, and thence to Badakhshan, where they say he now is, as has been written about his message and his sending some one to me. No one knows for certain whether it is the same Mirza Husain, or the people of Badakhshan have raised up this one like other false Mirzas and given him the name of Mirza Husain.