The Institutes of Akbar 267.729

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His sons. 1. Dalpat (No. 252). He was a Commander of Five Hundred. In the 36th year, he served in the Sind war, but was looked upon as a coward. In the 45th year, when Akbar was in the Dak’hin, Muzaffar Husain Mirza, in consequence of his differences with Khwajagi Fathullah, had fled; and Dalpat, under the pretext of following him up, had gone to Bikanir and created disturbances. In the 46th year, his father brought him to his senses. D. asked to be pardoned, and was ordered again to come to Court.
In the third year of Jahangir’s reign (1017), he appears to have offended the emperor; but at the request of Khan Jahan Lodi he was pardoned. After the death of his father, D. came from the Dak’hin to Court, was appointed successor, and got the title of Rai, although his younger brother (by another mother), Sur Singh, claimed the right of succession, which Rai Singh had promised him from affection to his mother. Sur Singh, however, disgusted Jahangir by the bold way in which he preferred his claim.
D. was then ordered to join M. Rustam Safawi (No. 8), the governor of Sind. In the 8th year, it was reported to Jahangir that Sur Singh had attacked and defeated his brother, who in consequence had created disturbances in Hisar. Hashim, the Faujdar of that Sirkar, caught him and sent him fettered to court, where he was executed as a warning to others.
For Dalpat’s son, Mahes Das, and grandson, Ratan, vide Padishahnamah, pp. 635, 723; 684, 729.