The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c13.38

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Exulting in his victory Sher Khān related that it had been foretold in a dream the night before, and he promised a safe-conduct to the ladies of the Mughul court, a promise which he honoured later. While Humāyūn and ‘Askarī made their way with difficulty to Āgra, Sher Khān advanced into Bengal and there defeated the governor left by Humāyūn and scattered his small force completely. While he was thus engaged the four brothers had come together. Humāyūn either through a sense of the weakness of his own position or through genuine fraternal love had forgiven, at once, Kāmrān's failure to come to his help and, after a formal rebuke, Hindāl's open rebellion. He still hoped to defeat Sher Khān and refused to accept Kāmrān's offer, prompted by ambitious and selfish aims, to lead the fresh troops from the Punjab against the enemy. Kāmrān, seeing the failure of his design to become the master of Hindūstān, wished to return to the Punjab where his rule was undisputed, and in spite of Humāyūn's opposition was at last able to depart owing to ill-health which he attributed openly to the climate of Āgra, but secretly believed was due to poison administered by Bābur's widows at the instigation of Humāyūn.