The Institutes of Akbar 320: 90. Lashkar Khān, Muhammad Husain of Khurāsān.
The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 320
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He was Mīr Bakhshī and Mīr ’Arz. In the 11th year, Muzaffar Khān (No. 37) had him deposed. In the 16th year, he came one day drunk to the Darbār, and challenged the courtiers to fight him. Akbar punished him by tying him to the tail of a horse, and then put him into prison.
He was subsequently released, and attached to Mun’im’s Bengal corps. In the battle of Takaroī (p. 375), he was severely wounded. Though his wounds commenced to heal, he did not take sufficient care of his health, and died, a few days after the battle, in Orīsā.
He is mentioned as having had a contingent of 2,000 troopers (Maāsir, 1,000). The Maāsir has a long note in justification of the extraordinary punishment, which Akbar inflicted on him.
The title of Lashkar Khān was conferred by Jahāngīr on Abul Hasan Mashhadī, and by Shāhjahān on Jān Nisār Khān Yādgār Beg.