Tarikh-i Salatin-i Afaghina 8.3.9

8.3.9

When Humáyún Sháh received intelligence of the feeble rule of 'Ádil Sháh, the dissensions of the nobles, and the partition of the territories of Hind, he felt persuaded that the discordance which then existed amongst the Afgháns would enable him to take easy possession of Hindústán, and he therefore made up his mind to invade it. But his differences with his brothers, Mírzá Kámrán, 'Askarí, and others, who had wrested many of his territories from him, together with the small number and unprepared state of his troops, opposed great obstacles. He wished to go to Mariam Makání, and seek succour and assistance from her. On a prosperous day, he sent Khwája Mu'azzam and Bairám Khán to fetch Mariam Makání and Prince Akbar, who went with expedition and brought them. As the winds were exceedingly hot, Akbar Mírzá spent that time on the borders of Mahain. From thence King Humáyún set off with 200 men, Bairám Khán, Khwája Mu'azzam, Bábá-dost Bakhshí, Khwája Ghází, Muhammad Haidar Akhtabegí, Mírzá Kulí Beg and his brothers, Shaikh Yusuf, Ibrahim the Lame, and Hasan Kuli, all nobles of note. [The history of Humayun, which follows in the MS., is copied verbatim from the Tabakat-i Akbari, as hereafter given among the Extracts from that work. The following account of the battle of Sirhind is the only passage in which Ahmad Yadgar differs from the Tabakat.]