Riyaz al-salatin 111.2.4

111.2.4

instructions that should the army of Mahabat Jang overtake them, they should instantly hack up Saulat Jang with daggers and spears and on no account should let the latter escape. And Mirza Baqir himself mounted a horse, and along with the Rath containing Saulat Jang he left the La'l Bagh Palace situate in the city of Katak, and arrived at Malisar. At this time, Balisar Khan with fifteen horsemen, who were his comrades, came up. The flags carried by the cavalry were visible in the forest. By chance at that time, from the excessive heat of summer, Saulat Jang changing his seat inside the Rath sat in the place where Haji Muhammad Amin had hitherto sat, and gave his own seat to the Haji. At the very sight of the flags of Balisar Khan's cavalry, the two armed horsemen who rode alongside the Rath thrust their spears through the Rath—screen, wounded Haji Muhammad Amin whom they mistook for Saulat Jang, and fled. As fate would have it, as soon as the spear-thrust pierced the Haji's hand and shoulder, the Haji's dagger fell from his hand, and shouting out, "you have killed me; you have killed me," the Haji tumbled down inside the Rath. Saulat Jang, the cup of whose life was not yet full to the brim, remained unscathed. When the Afghan troops were busy looting the vanquished, Mir Muhammad Ja'far Khan Bahadur and Muhammad Amin Khan Bahadur, with a few men fell in with the runaways, and moved in every direction in quest of Sa'id Ahmad Khan Bahadur Saulat Jang;