During the Mogul’s visit to the sage, who had provided a liberal entertainment, to which several officers of the garrison were invited, he sent word to the governor from time to time, requesting permission for such and such officers to be admitted also, until at length Tartar Chan desired the commander of the guard to use his own discretion in admitting whom he chose, conceiving himself secure in his fidelity. That officer, being a disciple of the philosopher and privy to the plot, availed himself of this order to permit anybody the Mogul wished to pass in, till at length a considerable body of resolute warriors were within the wall before the entertainment was ended.[22] The fort thus fell easily into possession of the Moguls without bloodshed. The governor was summoned before their general. “Traitor,” said the latter, “know that you stand in the presence of Babur Padshah, Emperor of the Moguls. Follow me to the ramparts!” Having reached the battlements, accompanied by several of his own officers, the Emperor said, “What does your faithlessness deserve?” “The pity of a conqueror,” replied Tartar Chan. “Princes have a solemn duty to perform in ridding the world of those who deserve not to live. Your doom is sealed.” Saying which, Babur seized the trembling governor by the cummerbund, raised him from the ground as if he had been an infant, and flung him over the battlements.[23] FOOTNOTES: [22] See Brigg’s Ferishta, vol. ii. p. 52. [23] Babur’s strength is said to have been prodigious; as a proof of which it is related, that “he used to leap from one pinnacle to another of the pinnated ramparts used in the East, in his double-soled boots, and that he even frequently took a man under each arm and went leaping along the rampart from one of the pointed pinnacles to another.”--_See Memoirs of Babur_, p. 430. HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Heg. 937 (1531).--Humayoon succeeded, on the death of his father, to the throne of Delhi. Heg. 938 (1532).--He defeated the Afghans at Juanpore. Heg. 940 (1533).--Humayoon caused a citadel to be built at Delhi, on the banks of the Jumna, to which he gave the name of Deen Puna, the asylum of the faithful, after which he marched towards Sarungpoor, in Malwa.