Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s2.42

c15.s2.42

² The fact of Humāyūn’s “rolling downstairs on to the ground” has been taken as improbable by some writers, *e.g.* Elphinstone, Marshman, etc., though that is the story told by Ferishta, *Muntakhabul-Tawārīkh*, *Ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī*, *Mir’ātul-’Ālam*, *Shāh-Jahān-Nāmah*, *etc.* That Humāyūn fell headlong over the parapet is taken by them as more likely.