278 The Capture and Death of Dura Shikoh. [No. 4, 



the dome, where Danyal and Murad, Akbar's sons, lie buried, and 

 which was subsequently filled with corpses of other Timurides. 



These details are taken from the 'Alamgirnamah, pp. 218 to 325, 

 408 to 415, 430 to 435, with which the Mir-dt ul 'A lam and the 

 Madsir i 'Alamgiri agree. 



Khdf'i Khan (Ed. Bibl. Indica, II, 82 to 87) differs from them in 

 several particulars. 



First, he makes Dara's wife die in the house of Malik Jiwan. 



Secondly , Dara is captured by Malik Jiwan's brother. 



Thirdly, Dara is sentenced to death for heresy.* 



Fourthly, Dara's corpse also was paraded in the streets of Dilhi. 



Fifthly, he says, Dara was killed on the last (29th) day of Zil- 

 Hajjah, instead of on the 21st. 



Bernier in his Travels gives a few additional particulars. He 

 calls Malik Jiwan Jihon Khan ; hence the correct pronuncia- 

 tion may be Malik Jion (iy_^j^-). Bernier evidently did not know 

 where Malik Jion's territory was ; but he calls him a Pat'han. 

 Dara's wife, according to his story, did not die a natural death, but 

 swallowed poison at Ldhor, to which town Dara had been taken from 

 Tattah, — which is most improbable. 



The author of the excellent Miftdh uttaiodrikh (Mr. Thomas ^jJ-^) 

 says that Dara and his son arrived as prisoners in Dihli on the 

 20th Zi Hajjah, 1069, corresponding to the 17th Shahriwar of 

 Akbar's era ; but that the day of Dara's execution was not certain, 

 inasmuch as some sources mentioned the 21st Zi Hajjah, 1069, 

 and others the 1st Muharram, 1070. The author evidently pre- 

 ferred the former date, as is shewn by his clever TdriJch on Ddrd's 

 death (Metre Khafif )— 



iJjU ^ j^Ci ij!^ (Jiji oJL& j >JUfj£ v_ol ^jIj JiLs 



I • T v r 



Wit seized the foofc (last letter) of decorum (adab, the last letter of which, 

 is t_> — 2) and said, Qatl i Bard Shikoh (the murder of Dara, Shikoh) is the 



Tdrikh. I. e., 



* On the next day [the day after Haibat's execution] i. e., on the last day 

 of Zi Hajjah, his Majesty ordered Dara to be killed conformably to the deci- 

 sion of lawyers that he had stepped out of the boundary of the Muhammadan 

 law, had brought C'ufism into bad repute, and had passed into open heresy 

 and schism. Khdfi Khan II, p. 87. 



