Haft Gulshan-i Muhammad-Shahi, of Muhammad Hadi Kamwar Khan (Elliot & Dowson, extracts)

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The narrators of ancient history, after much investigation, have related with great exactness and precision that there was a person by name Hasan, who lived in a state of extreme indigence, and was a servant of one Gangu, a Brahmin, who held some rank and honour in the Court of Sultan Muhammad Tughlik, King of Dehli. This astrologer possessed a small piece of land, which the King had granted to him for his maintenance, and he employed Hasan to till it. One day, as Hasan was driving the plough, he saw a hole in the ground, and on examining it, he discovered there a jar full of gold mohurs. He covered it with earth in the same manner as he found it, and informed Gángu of it. Gangu took Hasan to the King, and represented the matter to him. The Sultan praised Hasan for his honesty, admitted him among the commanders of a hundred, and took him into his favour. Gradually his rank increased to such a degree, that he was appointed, above all the Mughal mercenaries, Governor of Kulbarga and its vicinity. Gangu the astrologer, his old master, on examining his horoscope, found signs of his becoming a King, and received a promise from him that, in the days of his sovereignty, he would assume the name of Gangu as part of his royal title.
Sultán Muhammad Tughlik, being a very cruel prince, put the amirs of Sind, Dakhin, and Gujarat to death. But the Almighty God saved Hasan from destruction. The Sultan having invested him with the title of Zafar Khan, and conferred on him Bhakkar, which was one of the dependencies of Bhakhri, in jágír, went to Gujarat, and thence turned his course towards Thatta, where the army of death attacked him, and sent him to the world of nonentity.