Question

How Birbal (Akbar's Visior) died ?

Answer 1

It is believed that birbal died during an expedition on Afghanistan, by the troops.

Answer 2

The Afghani Yousafzai tribes had started a rebellion along the east bank of river Indusagainst the Mughal rule. After troops sent to crush the unrest suffered losses, Akbar sent Birbal with reinforcements from his new fort at Attock, to help the commander Zain Khan in 1586. Birbal and the army advanced into a narrow pass in Swat valley (in present-day Pakistan) where the Afghanis waiting in prepared positions in the hills.[13][unreliable source?] In the ensuing ambush and heavy defeat, Birbal and over 8000 soldiers were killed.[14] This was one of the largest military losses for Akbar.[5][unreliable source?] He was said to have expressed his grief over the loss his favourite courtier and not taken food or drink for two days.[6] He was anguished since his body could not be found for Hindu cremation.[7] He proclaimed that it was his greatest tragedy since his coming to the throne.[7]

Badayuni writes,[10]

His majesty cared for the death of no grandee more than for that of Bir Bar. He said, 'Alas! they could not even get his body out of the pass, that it might have been burned"; but at last, he consoled himself with the thought that Bir Bar was now free and independent of all earthly fetters, and as the rays of the sun were sufficient for him, there was no necessity that he should be cleansed by fire.