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232 LIVES OF THE MOGIIUL EMPERORS.
were that he should instantly retire to his own house.
The young man had now sat down to dinner, which
was still before him. The messengers communicat-
ed the royal commands and forced him away. Mir
Khalifeh then issued a proclamation, prohibiting all
persons from resorting to Mehdi Khwajeh's house, or
waiting upon him; while Mehdi Khwajeh himself re-
ceived orders not to appear at court."
Happily for the dying monarch, he was not at his
capital where these intrigues were now in full opera-
tion ; and was, therefore, most probably ignorant of
much that was going on. From the moment he took
to his bed, he never quitted it; and his disorder in-
creased so rapidly, that all hope of restoring him to
his people vanished from the minds of his physicians
and of his ministers. On the twenty-sixth of December
1530, this great prince expired at Charbagh, near
Agra, in the fiftieth year of his age. In compliance
with a wish expressed during his last sickness, his body
was conveyed to Cabul, where it was interred with
regal honours in a sepulchre erected upon a hill which
still bears his name. Humaioon immediately ascend-
ed the throne of Hindostan, through the influence of
Khalifeh. Baber at his death had seven children liv-
ing, of whom the prince who succeeded him was the
eldest. The second son, Kamran Mirza, had the go-
vernment of the Punjab in addition to that of Cabul
and Kandahar. To Hindal Mirza, his third son, was
assigned the country of Mewat; and to Askeri, his
fourth, the district of Sambuhl, the government of
which had been originally held by Humaioon. All
these princes took conspicuous parts in the distractions
were that he should instantly retire to his own house.
The young man had now sat down to dinner, which
was still before him. The messengers communicat-
ed the royal commands and forced him away. Mir
Khalifeh then issued a proclamation, prohibiting all
persons from resorting to Mehdi Khwajeh's house, or
waiting upon him; while Mehdi Khwajeh himself re-
ceived orders not to appear at court."
Happily for the dying monarch, he was not at his
capital where these intrigues were now in full opera-
tion ; and was, therefore, most probably ignorant of
much that was going on. From the moment he took
to his bed, he never quitted it; and his disorder in-
creased so rapidly, that all hope of restoring him to
his people vanished from the minds of his physicians
and of his ministers. On the twenty-sixth of December
1530, this great prince expired at Charbagh, near
Agra, in the fiftieth year of his age. In compliance
with a wish expressed during his last sickness, his body
was conveyed to Cabul, where it was interred with
regal honours in a sepulchre erected upon a hill which
still bears his name. Humaioon immediately ascend-
ed the throne of Hindostan, through the influence of
Khalifeh. Baber at his death had seven children liv-
ing, of whom the prince who succeeded him was the
eldest. The second son, Kamran Mirza, had the go-
vernment of the Punjab in addition to that of Cabul
and Kandahar. To Hindal Mirza, his third son, was
assigned the country of Mewat; and to Askeri, his
fourth, the district of Sambuhl, the government of
which had been originally held by Humaioon. All
these princes took conspicuous parts in the distractions