Muntakhab al-tawarikh 33.2.4

33.2.4

In the meantime the brother’s son of the Sultan, Akat Khan, together with a band of new-Muslim Mughals who were engaged in performing the duties of guards, attacked the Sultan relentlessly and smote him with arrows, seized him and wounded his arm. As it was the winter season, and the Sultan was wearing a cap stuffed with cotton his wounds were not fatal. Akat Khan wished to alight from his horse and strike off the Sultan’s head from his body, but some of the attendants pretending to side with him and take his part, cried out, the Sultan is killed! Akat Khan was satisfied at hearing this, and made off with all speed to the camp on horseback, and entering the royal hall of audience seated himself upon the throne, and drawing the canopy over his head, the Amirs, in accordance with ancient custom, gave in their allegiance to him as the rightful king, and raised no overt objection. Akat Khan was so overwhelmed by his inordinate lust that on the instant he made an attempt upon the haram, but Malik Dinar Harami who was on guard at the entrance to the haram with his men armed and equipped, said, Till you shew me the head of the Sultan I will not permit you to set foot within this private chamber. Sultan ‘Alau-d-Din, when he had somewhat regained consciousness after that perilous attack, bound up his wounds.