Note 22 — The Eighteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

One of the strange things that happened was that one day I was on an elephant, and was hunting wolves in Aligarh22 in the Nūh forest. A wolf appeared, and I struck it with a bullet on its face (mana) near the lobe of the ear. The bullet penetrated for about a span. From that bullet it fell and gave up its life. It has often happened in my presence that powerful (jawānān) men, good shots with the bow, have shot twenty or thirty arrows at them, and not killed. As it is not right to write about oneself, I must restrain the tongue of my pen from saying more.