The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 16.2.4

16.2.4

Among the rules of conduct (prescribed) for kings, one is that an enemy should be reduced to submission by tricks and deceit. You ought, therefore, to act (with due caution). No means of escape are available to him who falls into the net of calamity. (If you trust him) you will certainly be afflicted and injured by Daharsiah, and you will find yourself caught in the trap of disaster and confined “in the cage of trouble and misery, and will not again have any means of setting yourself at liberty.” Dahar said: “Though there is a risk, and one cannot be sure of safety, a brother is after all a brother.” He then sent word to Daharsiah to the effect that he (Dahar) was ready to agree to his proposal and come out to meet him, if Daharsiah would give him assurance of his safety. Prince Daharsiah thereupon wrote a letter, in which he took an oath in very strong terms, and said: ‘In order to win your trust I will come alone to see you, while you may come out with your whole retinue.’ Both of them agreed to this condition, and appointed the time and place of meeting. Next day, when the disc of the sun, in the firmament, arose in the east, and the world threw off from its shoulders the sable cloak (of night), Daharsiah sat on an elephant, and entered the town of Alór by the western gate. The town officer (kótwál) sent a trustworthy person to Dahar, informing him that Daharsiah had come to the door of the fort and asking for orders.