274 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
down the stair, and was carried into a room, that he recovered 
consciousness, but died next day towards the evening. 
day of his death was II Rabi‘-l-awwal (24 January, 1556). 
‘Tahir says that one chief object of his book was to write a 
history of Akbar; and he is very full, and chronicles events 
year by year. Among other things he tells us that Shah Man- 
sur was innocent, and thatithe evidence on which Akbar put him 
to death was forged. But Nizamu-d-din had said this before. 
Tahir calls Mansir an “ incomparable Vizier” wazir be nazir. 
At page 370° of the B.M. copy Or. 168 (my copy is imper- 
fect at the end) there is an account of Shahrukh’s embassy t0 
China. It returned to Herat on 10 Ramzan 825 (end of August 
1422). It is not ‘Abdu-r-Razzaq’s account, but is the narra- 
copied from Qazi Ahmad Ghaffari’s N igaristan. (See Badayini 
thing new. Nor is th 
local dynasties of India, except that in the history of Bengal 
ar 
din killed him by throwing him from a roof when he was lying 
there in a state of intoxication. 
; To myself one of the most interesting things in the Rauzat 
is the account of Sultan Husain of Herat, and of his fourteen 
sons. 
of difference that I noticed :— : 
Variations between Babur’s Memoirs and Tahir’s account of 
an Husain and his sons and officers. ol 
Tahir says Sultan Husain died on the 16th Zul hajja 
at Baba. Tlahi, a dependency of Badghis, and was buried at 
Herat in a tomb ' 
