The Institutes of Akbar 245.2

245.2

In the 17th year, he was ordered to take Nagarkot, which had belonged to Rajah Jai Chand. Badaoni says (II, p. 161), that the war was merely undertaken to provide Bir Bar with a jagir. Akbar had Jai Chand imprisoned, and Badi Chand, his son, thinking that his father was dead, rebelled. Khan Jahan, on his way, conquered Fort Kotlah, reached Nagarkot in the beginning of Rajab 980, and took the famous Bhawan temple outside of the Fort. The siege was progressing and the town reduced to extremities, when it was reported that Ibrahim Husain Mirza and Mas’ud Mirza had invaded the Panjab. Khan Jahan therefore accepted a payment of five mans of gold and some valuables, and raised the siege. He is also said to have erected a Masjid in front of Jai Chand’s palace in the Fort, and to have read the Khutbah in Akbar’s name (Friday, middle of Shawwal 980). Accompanied by Isma’il Quli Khan and Mirza Yusuf Khan i Rizawi (No. 35), Khan Jahan marched against the Mirzas, surprised them in the Parganah of Talbanah, 40 kos from Multan, and defeated them. Ibrahim Husain Mirza escaped to Multan, but Mas’ud Husain and several other Mirzas of note were taken prisoners. In the 18th year (981), when Akbar returned to Agrah after the conquest of Gujrat, he invited his Amirs to meet him, and Khan Jahan also came with his prisoners, whom he had put into cow skins with horns on, with their eyelashes sewn together. Akbar had their eyes immediately opened, and even pardoned some of the prisoners.