Editing Humayun (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Humayun Tomb, Delhi, from the entrance portal.jpg|thumb|Tomb entrance view]]
[[File:Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, India 2019.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Humayun's Tomb]] in [[Delhi]], [[India]], was commissioned by his chief wife, [[Bega Begum]]]]

On 24 January 1556, Humayun, with his arms full of books, was descending the staircase from his library [[Sher Mandal]] when the [[muezzin]] announced the [[Azaan]] (the call to prayer). It was his habit, wherever and whenever he heard the summons, to bow his knee in holy reverence. Trying to kneel, he caught his foot in his robe, slipped down several steps and hit his temple on a rugged stone edge. He died three days later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Vincent Arthur |author-link=Vincent Arthur Smith |year=1958 |orig-year=First published 1917 |title=Akbar: The Great Mogul 1542–1605 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499248/page/n37/mode/1up |edition=2nd |publisher=[[S. Chand & Co.]] |pages=21–22}}</ref> His body was laid to rest in [[Purana Quila]] initially, but, because of an attack by [[Hemu]] on Delhi and the capture of Purana Qila, Humayun's body was exhumed by the fleeing army and transferred to [[Kalanaur, Gurdaspur|Kalanaur]] in [[Punjab]] where [[Akbar]] was crowned. After young Mughal emperor Akbar defeated and killed Hemu in the [[Second Battle of Panipat]], Humayun's body was buried in  [[Humayun's Tomb]] in Delhi the first very grand garden tomb in [[Mughal architecture]], setting the precedent later followed by the [[Taj Mahal]] and many other Indian monuments. It was commissioned by his favorite and devoted chief wife, [[Bega Begum]].<ref name=Takeo>{{cite web |last=Kamiya |first=Takeo |title=Humayun's Tomb in Delhi |url=http://www.kamit.jp/02_unesco/12_humayun/hum_eng.htm |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |access-date=12 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="Hum">{{harvnb|Banerji|1938|pp=97, 232}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Burke |first=S. M. |year=1989 |title=Akbar, the Greatest Mogul |url=https://archive.org/details/akbargreatestmog0000smbu/page/191/mode/1up |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |page=191 |oclc=243709755 |quote=The mausoleum which Haji Begum built at Delhi to shelter her late husband's mortal remains ... Another pleasing feature is the laying out of a large garden round the building.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Eraly |first=Abraham |title=The Mughal world: Life in India's Last Golden Age |url=https://archive.org/details/mughalworldlifei00eral |url-access=limited |year=2007 |publisher=Penguin Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/mughalworldlifei00eral/page/n374 369] |isbn=978-0-14-310262-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Carol E. |title=Culture and Customs of India |year=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=90 |isbn=978-0-313-30513-9 |quote=After Mughal emperor Humayan's death in 1556, his wife, Hajji Begum, assembled a team of architects and builders to create a grand tomb in Delhi. She placed the tomb in a grid with a garden. This setting became a signature of Mughal architecture and is most perfectly realized in the Taj Mahal.}}</ref><ref name=mau>{{cite news |title=Mausoleum that Humayun never built |url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/28/stories/2003042800730200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030708165811/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/28/stories/2003042800730200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2003 |access-date=31 January 2013 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=28 April 2003}}</ref>

Akbar later asked his paternal aunt, [[Gulbadan Begum]], to write a biography of his father Humayun, the ''Humayun nameh'' (or ''Humayun-nama''), and what she remembered of Babur.
The full title is ''Ahwal Humayun Padshah Jamah Kardom Gulbadan Begum bint Babur Padshah amma Akbar Padshah''.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/gulbadan/index.html The Humayun Namah, by Gulbadan Begam, a study site by Deanna Ramsay<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She was only eight when Babur died, and was married at 17, and her work is in simple Persian style.
Unlike other Mughal royal biographies (the [[Zafarnama (Yazdi biography)|''Zafarnama'' of Timur]], ''[[Baburnama]]'', and Akbar's own ''[[Akbarnama]]'') no richly illustrated copy has survived, and the work is only known from a single battered and slightly incomplete manuscript, now in the [[British Library]], that emerged in the 1860s.  [[Annette Beveridge]] published an English translation in 1901,<ref name="Beveridge2">{{cite book |last1=Begam |first1=Gulbaden |editor1-last=Beveridge |editor1-first=Annette Susannah |title=The history of Humāyūn (Humāyūn-nāma) |date=1902 |publisher=Royal Asiatic Society |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/historyhumynhum00bevegoog |access-date=14 December 2017}}</ref> and editions in English and [[Bengali language|Bengali]] have been published since 2000.<ref>Bengali: trans by Pradosh Chattopadhyay, 2006, pub. Chirayata Prokashan, {{ISBN|81-85696-66-7}}</ref>