1. Gul-Badan Begam, The History of Humayan, trans. A. S. Beveridge (Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1989), pp. 107–109.
2. Abu I-Fazl, Ain-I Akbari, trans. H. Blochman (Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1997), p. 96.
3. Tuzuk-I-Jahangiri, ed. and trans. Alexander Rogers and Henry Beveridge (Delhi: Mushiram Manoharlal, 1968), pp. 69, 114, 126.
4. One full set of newswriter’s letters is translated in Jadunath Sarkar, House of Shivaji (Calcutta: M. C. Sarkar, 1955).
5. An even fuller account of the incident is found in Jadunath Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times (Calcutta: M. C. Sarkar, 1961), pp. 103–17.