On the third of the month of Ṣafar in the year 911 H. (6th July, 1505 A.D.) so violent an earthquake occurred over the whole ^320. of Hindūstān* that the hills began to tremble, while strong and lofty buildings* fell to atoms, and the earth in places was cleft and rents appeared,* while they assert that villages and trees left their places, and men supposed that the day of resurrection had arrived.* We learn from the Wāqi‘āt-i-Bābarī,* and other histories, that this earthquake was not confined to Hindūstān, but that on the same day in Persia also a similar earthquake occurred, and the word Qāẓī,* was invented as a chronogram to record the date of it.

Rubā‘ī.

In nine hundred and eleven the city of Agra became the goal
of several successive earthquakes.
And whereas her buildings were excessively lofty, that which
had been their highest points became the lowest.*

From the time of Adam to the present time no such earth­quake has ever been known.

And in the year 912 H. (1506 A.D.), after the rising of Canopus, he marched against the fortress of Ūntgaṛh,* and laid siege to it, and many of his men joyfully embraced martyrdom, after that he took the fort and gave the infidels as food to the sword; those who escaped the sword fed the flames of the fire of jūhar with their wives and children. He then cast down the idol temples, and built there a lofty mosque.

In the year 913 H. (1507 A.D.), after the rising of Canopus he pro­ceeded with the object of reducing the fortress of Narwar.* Whilst en route he fell in with the elephants and cavalry and infantry of Jalāl Khān Lodī,* whom he had sent on in advance to clear the way,* and whom he had appointed to reduce Narwar. Becoming suspicious of him, he set about overthrowing him, and made some pretext for dispersing his forces, and taking him prisoner sent him to the fortress of Sakkar;* he then took Narwar, the garrison hav­ing capitulated. And in the year 914 H. (1508 A.D.) he constructed other forts round Narwar to increase its strength, and bestowing a hundred and twenty horses* and fifteen elephants, with a robe of ^321. honour and a sum of money upon Prince Jalāl Khān, allowed him, together with Na‘mat Khātūn,* wife* of Qub Khān Lodī, who had come* to have an interview with the Sulān, to proceed to Kalpī, and gave that district as a jāegīr to Prince Jalāl Khān. And in the year 915 H. (1509 A.D.) he marched from Lahāyar,* and came to Hatkānth,* established posts in different places and proceeded to his capital Āgra. The date of this was (fixed by the following words) Lahu alḥukmu wa ilaihi tarja‘ūn.* That is to say, His is the decree and to him do ye return.

Muḥammad Khān, the grandson of Sulān Nāiru-d-Dīn of Mālwa, fearing his grandfather, came for safety to the Sulān, and was allotted the jāegīr of Chanderī, while Prince Jalāl Khān was directed to* give him every assistance as an ally; and in this year orders were issued for the erection of palaces and rest-houses, and for the laying out of gardens* at intervals along the whole route from Āgra to Dholpūr, so that when he came back from his hunt­ing expeditions he might rest and refresh himself* there. In this year Muḥammad Khān of Nāgor, influenced by the fact that certain of his relations* had sought and obtained an interview with the Sulān, evinced great respect for the Sulān, reading the Khubah in Nāgor in his name without raising any objection,* so that in this way a new territory* came* into the possession of the Sulān.

In this year also Suleimān, the son of Khān-i-Khānān Farmalī, was dismissed from the service of the Sulān, on the grounds that he had been appointed* to perform a service at Ūntghar,* and in the direction of Sūpar, and had refused: the pargana of Indrī Karnāl* was given him as Madad-i-ma‘āsh (rent-free land), with orders to go and remain there.

In this year* Bahjat Khān of Mālwa transferred Chanderī to Sulān Sikander on account of the weakness* of Sulān ^322. Maḥmūd of Mālwa, and read the Khubah in his name in those districts. Accordingly proclamations conveying tidings of this victory were written to all parts of the Kingdom; and Muḥam-mad Khān, the grandson of Sulān Nāṣiru-d-Dīn of Mālwa,* was taken prisoner, and Chanderī was (nominally)* placed under his authority, but Amīrs were appointed to supervise him so that they might be aware of all his movements, control his actions, and administer* his jāegīr, then the Sulān proceeded on a hunt­ing excursion towards Baiāna, and paid his respects to the various learned and holy men of those districts, who were at that time famous for their miracles and wonder-working,* especially* Saiyyid N‘amatu-llāh and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh Ḥusainī,* who was one of those famous for revelations and miracle-working,* with whom he used to consort frequently. Shāhzāda Daulat Khān, Governor of the fortress of Rantanbhūr, in the service of Sulān Maḥmūd of Mālwa, availing himself of the intermediary aid of ‘Alī Khān of Nāgor, who was in charge of the province of Sīwī Sīyūpūr,* came and had an interview with the Sulān, and agreed to give up to him the key of the fortress. It so chanced that the ‘Alī Khān who has been spoken of above, once more practised his hypocrisy, and came out from the fort to oppose him. The Sulān pretended not to notice this, and treated Daulat Khān as though he were his own son, bestowing upon him a special robe of honour, with several horses and elephants, and pro­ceeded towards the fort of Thankar,* and from thence proceeding by way of the township of Bārī,* he returned thence to Āgra. Here he was seized with an illness, and took the journey to the* next world on Sunday the seventeenth* of Zūl Q‘adah 923 H. (Jan. 1518 A.D.). The words Jannātu-l-Firdaus nazalā. (The gar­dens of Paradise came down) furnish the date* of his death, the duration of his reign was twenty-eight years and five months.

Verse.

Sikandar, the emperor of the seven kingdoms continued not.
No one continues, seeing that Sikandar himself did not
continue.