Riyaz al-salatin 90.7

90.7

This wretched Rustam Khan was by Shah Jahan elevated from the mansab of a Sehbasti to that of a Panjhazari, and honoured with the title of Rustam Khan and appointed Governor of Gujrat, and he enjoyed the Prince's full confidence. Now that the Prince appointing him generalissimo detached him to encounter Prince Parviz, the wretch shelving the obligations of so many years' kindness, joined Mahabet Khan. Owing to the occurrence of this mishap, Shah Jahan's army got demoralised, and all confidence between each other was lost. Many, going the high-way of infidelity, fled. On hearing of this, Shah Jahan summoned the remnant of the army to his side, crossed the river Narbada, and removed the boats to his side of the river-bank. Leaving Bairam Beg, the Pay-Master General of the Force, with a body of troops on the banks of the river, Shah Jahan himself with the Khan-i-Khanan and 'Abdullah Khan and others proceeded towards the fort of Asir and Burhanpur. Muhammad Taqi Bakshi intercepting the letter of the Khan Khanan, which the latter had secretly despatched to Mahabet Khan, produced it before Shah Jahan. On the top of the letter, this line was written: — Translation : A hundred persons with their eyes watch me, Or else I should have fled from this discomfort. Shah Jahan summoning the Khan Khanan with his son Darab Khan from his house, secretly showed him the letter. The latter failed to give any satisfactory explanation.