1918.| The Sources of the Akbarnama. 471 
doubts and difficulties with the knife of investigation and 
ascertainment.”’ 
may be suggested that Abul Fazl’s account of the 
sacrifice [pp. 275-76 of the Akbarnama translation] is the 
original, and that the IIminsky Fragment is only a Turki fabri- 
cation made from the Akbarnima. But against this is the 
fact that the Akbarnama makes one Mir Abil Baqa sug- 
gest the surrender of some valuable possession, whereas in the 
Fragment, P. de Courteille’s translatlon, Vol. II, p. 459, the sug- 
gestion comes from Abul Qasim. It is true,thowever.) that the 
Fragment adds to Abul Qasim the words Khwaja Khalifa and 
others of Babur’s intimates. To me the introduction of the dia- 
Miond-story seems rather inappropriate, for Babur might have 
objected that the diamond was not his to give for he had already 
stowed it on Humayin (Akbarnama translation), pp 248 and 
276, and Pavet de Courteille Il, 460). 
