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[AT WAS TUS SEVENTH EXPECITION TO HINDUSTAN \eeeciceeni |AN@ EARLY NEXT MORNING , BABUR STARTED OUT ON HIS DARING ADUENTURE.ON THE EVE OF i BATTLE WITH SULTAN IBRATIN LODI— (ON APRIL 21, 1526, THE TWO PLAINS OF PANIPAT +BY MIDDAY, SULTAN IBRANIM WAS SLAIN AND HIS FORCES ROUTED. = : = AFTER THE BATTUE— | an FATHER , WHAT eu Si ff er i a LATER, HUMAYLUN CAPTURED AGRA WHERE BABUR JOINED HIM. a KEEP IT, MY SON, AS A TOKEN OF mY APPRECIATION:FOUR YEARS PASSED .HUMAYUN WAS NOW AT HIS JAGIR IN SAMBHAL. SUDDENLY ONE DAY, BABUR RECEIVED SHOCKING NEWS.~ MAMAN, PRINCE HUMAYUN 1S DANGER~ OUSLY ILL. HAVE HIM BROUGHT HERE IMMEDIATELY « WM SPITE OF THE BEST MEDICAL HUMAYUN STEADILY, WHILE HIS SUBJECTS HELD MASS PRAYERS FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE BELOVED PRINCE -.- * REFUGE OF THE UNIVERSE. MAHAM HERSELF WENT AMD BROUGHT HER AILING SON BACK TO THE CAPITALUAHANPANAM, UAHANPANAN, THE SACRIFICE OF A HOLY MAN SOMETHING PRECIOUS LIKE THE } DIAMOND “THE PRINGE HAS, MIGHT BE ACCEPTED BY ALLAH IN ‘BUT THE RETURN FOR HIS LIFE. DIAMOND BE- LONGS TO NUMAYUN. THE SACRIFICE SHOULD BE No! moRE PRECIOUS THAN MY RICHES AND mY KINGDOM Is my LIFE! 1 SACRIFICE 2 My WEALTH 2 my KINGDOM e| YA ALLAHLIF | A LIFE CAN BE EACHANGED FOR ALIFE, 1, BABUR, OFFER YOU MINE FOR HUMAYUN'S .THREE TIMES HE WALKED ROUND THE BED OF HIS 5ON- 7 Humayun ! atcan! \) HEARD my) you've PRAYER. YOU'VE, SAVED MY DEAR SON! THAT VERY DAYs HUMAYUN BEGAN TO RECOVER WHILE BaBUR 2. TWO aes MONTHS LATER — DO NOT QUARREL WITH YOUR BROTHERS. BE KIND TO THEM.\ON HEARING OF BABUR'S HURRIED TO DELHI, IF 1 GIVE_1N TO THEIR DEMANDS, IT WILL BREAK uP’ “THE EMPIRE ... BUT FATHERS) LAST WISH WAS THAT 1 SHOULD BE KIND To THEM... [GENEROUS BY NATURE, HAMAYUN MORE THAN THEY DESERVED. ‘® KAMRAN WAS GIVEN KABUL, KANDAHAR ANT WESTERN PUNJAB; ASKARI, SAMBHAL ; AND HINDAL, ALWARBY sananranan, RANE KARMAVATI OF CHITTOR, HAS ASKED ME TO. DELIVER THIS TO you A HINDU PRINCESS: HAS HONOURED ME BY CALLING ME BROTHER .| MUST NOT FAIL HER IN THE HOUR OF HUMAYUN IMMEDIATELY HELD A COUNCIL OF WAR.1AM YOUR SLAVE, [sine ,1T 1S NOT WISE TO ABAN-' VAHANPANAH ENTRUST | \DON CHUNAR NOW. SHER KHAN Oe ee 1 DANGEROUS. SAGE FROM CHUNAR TO ME AND SHER KHAN, 1 SWEAR MY LOYALTY UAHANPANAH ! 70 you. SHER KHAN + f eut 1M PLEDGED TO HELP my SISTER, RANI_KARMA~ VATI. TELL SHER KHAN 1 ACCEDE ‘10| HIS REQUEST. ‘LEAVING PART OF HiS ARMY AT CHUNAR, HUMAYUN MARCHED TO CHITTOR. BEFORE HE REACHED CHITTOR, HOWEVER — UAHANPANAH, CHITTOR HAS FALLEN. RAMI KARMAVATI_ HAS COMMITTED URUHAR. PARDON ME, \\) | u/ST THEM ONE OF HIS SISTER, FOR FAIL= SPIES CAME TO Hit. TN@ YOU, BARADUR SHAM WiLL PAY FOR THIS. BAHADUR SHAH HAS FLED FROM ClLET US MARCH | [WHEN HUMAYUN ARRIVED AT CHAMPANER WITH INTO CHAMPANER,, S[ B27 BEFORE HUMAYLIN COULD REACH CAMBAY, | BatiADUR HAD ESCAPED 70 Diu? SO HUMAYLN| RETURNED TO CHAMMPANER » | ON A MOONLIT NIGHT, Humayun, Wate A HAND Rc OF BReivEIMPOSSIBLE | HE WOULDN'T DARE! BAD NEWS, JAHANPANAH. \jjas SHER KHAN HAS INVADED BENGAL.swam TO THE EMPERCR AND’ OFFERED IM HIS. SLOWN-UP LEATHER BAG TO USE AS AFLOAT |—@ TO ESCAPE ACROSS THE RIVER. ' IN AGRA, AND IF | LIVE YOU SHALL SIT ON MY /5 THRONE FOR A p MWh A HUMBLE WATER-CARRIER DISPLAYED gg) SUCH LOVING LOYALTY TO HIS EMPEROR..- J-:-MUMAYEIN’S OWN KITH AND KIN HAD TURNED || WITH THIS IN MIND, HUMAYUN NAD A LONG TRAITORS « WHEN HE RETURNED TO AGRA — TALK WITH tS ERRING BROTHERS: IM TIME , JAHANPANAH t KAMRAN AND HINDAL NAVE_DESIGNS ON YOUR. THRONE. MY GREATEST ENEMIES. | BUT | PROMISED FATHER] HWOULP BE KIND TO LET BYGONES GE BYGONES. THERE ARE PRESSING MATTERS TO BE ATTENDED TO. SHER KHAN MAS “TO BE DEALT WITh. NE 9 IN POSSESSION OF MOST OF MY TERRITORY AND HAS PROCLAIMED HIMSELF SHAH .® NO, KAMRAN « SHER KHAN DEFEATED ME .1 MUST AVENGE LATER MUMAYUN DID KEEP HI PROMISE. B KING(N APRI 15#O, HUMAYEN MARCHED TO KANAUA/ FOR THE FINAL CONTEST WITH SHER SHAH.BUT BEFORE A SINGLE ARROW WAS SHOT, eae SOLDIERS FLED LIKE CHAFE BEFORE THE WIND. INOT A MAN, EITHER FRIEND OR FOE, WAS WOUNDED . NOT A GIN) x z ] WAS FIRED, AND THE CHARIOTS WERE USELESS . HUMAYWM TOO pn HAD TO FLEE, WITH SHER SHAN'S SOLDIERS IN HOT PuRouIT. | ~~ HE SOUGHT ASYLUM WITH HINDAL AT PATAR 1AM NOW A KING WITHOUT A KINGDOM, A MAN WITHOUT: AHOMEman’s DAUGHTER, }* NOT A PRINCESS. { [THREE DAYS AFTER THE WEDDING, HUMAYUN WITH MS BRIDE AND A FEW FOLLOWERS LEFT PATAR. [THANK YOU FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY. 1 SHALL SEEK THE HELP OF RAJA MALDEV OF MARWAR — The most POWERFUL KING IN RAJASTHAN.FROM MALDEU'S LIBRARIAN - 50 AT MIDNIGHT, HUMAYEN FLED WITH HAMIDA AND A BAND OF FOLLOWERS. BUT ON THE WAY, HE RECEWED A MESSAGE BEWARE ! MALDEV INTENDS TO MAKE YOU HIS PRISONER. FLEE FOR YOUR THEY SPENT THREE HORRIBLE DAYS IN THE DESERT WITHOUT WATER. AFTER SUFFERING MANY HARDSHIPS, ONLY SEVEN, INCLUDING HUMAYUN AND THE BEGUM , REACHED AMARKOT—THEIR wd 2 aaa = asaes 4THE RAJA HIMSELF GAME OUT TO RECEWE THEM. ‘TO AMARKOT, ‘JAHANPANAH! LEAVING HIS PREGNANT WIFE AT AMARKOT, MUMAYUN MARCHED TO JUN. A FEW DAYS LATER, A MESSENGER FROM AMARKOT CAME TO HIM. SIRE, THE EMPRESS. ‘ALAM BE PRAISEDT HAMIDA BANU BEGUM | / WE WILL CALL HIM HAS BEEN DELIVERED /( — JALAL-UD-DIN OF A SON. MUHAMMAD AKBAR. AP HUMAIUN TOOK JUN WITH EASE, AFFORD TO PRESENT YOU WITH & HIS WIFE JOINED HM THERE. ON THE BIRTH OF MY SON. | TRUST 15 FAME WILL, ONE DAY, SPREAD ALL OVER THE WORLD, AS THE PERFUME OF THE MUSK NOW FILLS THE AIR. MUSK IS ALL | CANWINE MONTHS LATER, HE LEFT Jui AND WANDERED FROM PLACE TO PLACE « WHEN HE WAS CAMPING AT MASTUNG — WHY NOT SEEK THE HELP OF SHAM TTAHMASP, OF PERSIA ® HE 15 A GREAT KING. ‘ON THE WAY TO PERSIA — ‘THE Soup HAS FROZEN! IT WAS WINTER . THE UNGRATEFUL ASKARI WAS JN HOT PURSUIT. HUMAYUN FLED LEAVING AKBAR BENING. Lf, THE LITTLE ONE WiLL NOT BE ABLE TO WITH STAND THE COLD. 1AM “SURE, ASKARI WILL NOT HARM Hi. YOU ARE [ SHIVERING -HERE! YOU CAN HAVEAT SHAH TAHMASP’S COURT—1 SHALL GIVE YOU 12,000 CAVALRY | You GAN THANK ME BY ESTABLISHING THE SHIA® FAITH IN YOUR DOMAINS. YOU MAY GO NOW, HUMA MAY ALLAH BE WITH YOU MUSLINS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GREAT SECTS , THE SHIAS AND THE SUNNIS; THE PERSIANS ARE SHIAS , THE TURKS ARE SUNNIS:ON LEAVING PERSIA, HUMAYUN DEAR BROTHERS, LET SENT A MESSAGE TO KAMRAN US NOT FIGHT ANG ASKARI. UNITE AND REGAIN | HINDUSTAN. IWHEN NEWS OF THEIR PLANS REACHED HUMAYSUN'S NOBLES—| ST | OURSELVES. LET us WE MUST FOIL HIS PLANS AT THE SIEGE OF KANDAHAR LASTED FOR THREE MONTHS « ASKAR! TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT WAS CAUGHT.[rskar, 1AM SENDING YOU ON A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA. | DESERVE WORSE. AM GRATEFUL TO ‘YOU, BROTHER, FOR SPARING MY LIFE. HUMAYUN NEXT TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO KAMRAN- BEFORE ATTACKING — WE MUST TRY TO AVOID NEEDLESS BLOODSHED. TELL KAMRAN TO COME AND MAKE PEACE WITH ME. — EXPOSE PRINCE AKBAR IN REPLY KAMRAN WHO HAD TO HIS QWN FATHER’S PRINCE AKBAR WITH HIM THEN , TRIED A DIABOLICALIN THE FIGHT THAT FOLLOWED, INOAL WAS KILLED. S KALEP 17 Die HAPPY. TELL THE EMPEROR VVE GLADLY GIVEN MY LIFE FOR HIM. LONG LIVE. EMPEROR Sx numayun. KAMRAN FLED. HINDAL PURSUED HiM « HINDAL WAS THE ‘ ONLY BROTHER WHO CARED FOR ME. AND : Gave HS FE THAVE LOST HM UAHANPANAK ‘UAHANPANBH ; PRINCE. KAMRAN HAS BEEN MADE PRISONER-HEARING OF HUMAYUN'S SUCCESS, SHER SHAH'S GRANDSON, | SULTAN SIKANDAR SUR MARCHED TO SIRHIND WITH 80,000 CAVALRY, ELEPHANTS AND ARTILLERY — |THE AFGHANS WERE | ROUTER AND SULTAN SIKANDAR FLED. HUMAYUN'S DEFEATS ST CHAUNSA AND KANAUS WERE AT LAST AVENGED.ON UULY 23,1555 AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS IN EXILE, HUMAYUN ENTERED DELHI WITH HIS VICTORIOUS TROOPS, AT SUNSET , JUST SIX MONTHS LATER, WHILE DESCENDING FROM HIS LIBRARY, THE EMPEROR HEARD THE MUAZZIN'S CALL TO - q HE IMMEDIATELY KNELT DOWN 7O PRAY-THE EMPEROR 1S UNCONSCIOUS! THE EMPEROR HAS BREATHED Hi ‘i . ISUSe Naess) HUMAYUN His name meant ‘The Fortunate One’, but Humayun, second Mughal CT aT RE ole oy Ao cel Co LA ascended the throne. Not only was he betrayed by the brothers he ea eel RU yell Re LC a aL) Bohadur Shah. How Humayun lost his kingdom and regained it is erst ee RUC ec ream wld i meena INDIAN CLASSICS Cote arUntelt] 3 NTT I a9 Rares eR)