A Balkhī melon-grower had been set to raise melons; he now brought a few first-rate small ones; on one or two bush-vines (būta-tāk) I had had planted in the Garden-of-eight-paradises very good grapes had grown; Shaikh Gūran sent me a basket of grapes which too were not bad. To have grapes and melons grown in this way in Hindūstān filled my measure of content.
(uuu. Arrival of Māhīm Begīm.)
(June 26th) Māhīm arrived while yet two watches of Sunday night (Shawwāl 20th)[2680] remained. By a singular agreement of things they had left Kābul on the very day, the 10th of the 1st Jumāda (Jan. 21st 1529) on which I rode out to the army.[2681]
(Here the record of 11 days is wanting.)
(July 7th) On Thursday the 1st of Ẕū’l-qa‘da the offerings made by Humāyūn and Māhīm were set out while I sat in the large Hall of Audience.
Today also wages were given to 150 porters (kahār) and they were started off under a servant of Faghfūr Dīwān to fetch melons, grapes, and other fruits from Kābul.Fol. 381.
(vvv. Concerning Saṃbhal.)
(July 9th) On Saturday the 3rd of the month, Hindū Beg who had come as escort from Kābul and must have been sent to Saṃbhal on account of the death of ‘Alī-i-yūsuf, came and waited on me.[2682] Khalīfa’s (son) Ḥusāmu’d-dīn came also today from Alwār and waited on me.
(July 10th) On Sunday morning (4th) came ‘Abdu’l-lāh (kitābdār), who from Tīr-mūhānī[2683] had been sent to Saṃbhal on account of the death of ‘Alī-i-yūsuf.
(Here the record of 7 days is wanting.)