The Institutes of Akbar 275.4

275.4

Bahadur made some one a sign to kill A., who sat fettered on an elephant, and A. had just received a wound in his hand and nose, when Vazir in time saved his life, and carried him away. Both reached, in 973, Karah, and asked Muzaffar Khan (No. 37) to intercede for them with the emperor. When Muzaffar, in 974, was called by the emperor to the Panjab, he took Vazir with him, and obtained full pardon for the two brothers. A. was ordered to join Majnun Qaqshal at Karah-Manikpur. His bravery in the last struggle with Khan Zaman induced Akbar, in 975, to give him Piyag as tuyul, vice Haji Muhammad Sistani (No. 55), to enable him to recruit a contingent for the expedition against Rana Udai Singh. A. was sent in advance (mangala). In the middle of Rabi’ I, 975, Akbar left Agrah for Chitor. The Rana had commissioned Jai Mall, who had formerly been in Mirt’ha, to defend the fort, whilst he himself had withdrawn to the mountains. During the siege, which lasted four months and seven days, A. distinguished himself, and when, on the 25th Sha’ban, 975, the fort fell A. was made Governor of Chitor. Neither the Badaoni, nor the Tabaqat, mentions the year of his death. He must have been dead in 981, because the title of Asaf Khan was bestowed upon another noble.