Twilight of the Sultanate c15.s4.74

c15.s4.74

(In 932 India was made over at Panipat. On 7 Rajjab Bābur won, Ibrāhīm lost.) The same has been reproduced by Ahmad Yādgār and 'Abdulla in Urdu. Yādgār only changes the date from 7 Rajjab to 4 Rajjab. T.D. has 7 intact. 'Abdulla states on the authority of an eye-witness, 120 years old, that Ibrāhīm did not die on the field of battle. He wheeled round from there with a few followers for the Miyān-i-Doab. While he was crossing the river (Jumna) the witness "saw him" attired in royal robes and seated on a black Iraqi charger, but he did not come out of the water and was drowned at the ford of Birauna. But as Sir Henry Elliot rightly comments: "The old narrator may have witnessed the scene, but who will be the witness for the old narrator". E and D, V, 30 n.