Muntakhab al-tawarikh 44.2.4

44.2.4

Its name is called up to the present day Dalāil-i-Fīrūzī, and the author of this Muntakhab read it in Lāhor in the year 1000 H. (1591-92 A.D.) from beginning to end. It is moderately good, neither free from beauties nor defects; and I saw some other books before that also which were translated in the name of Sultān Fīrūz, some of them on the Science of Pingal that is to say on Music, and the kinds of Akhāra which they call Pātur bāzī, and some on other subjects. I found most of them to be profitless, and their paucity of interest is for the most part due to the triviality of their subject matter, and the difficulty of explaining it, as is evident. The Sultān leaving there proceeded to Thattha, and the Jām, by which title the ruler of Thattha is called, entrenched himself so that the Sultān was induced by the vehemence of the rainy season, and the amount of water which was out, as well as by the dearness of gram, to abandon the siege and make with all haste for Gujrat, which country he placed under the control of Zafar Khan, then having deposed Nizamu-l Mulk and appointed him Na'ib Wazir of Dihli, he returned to Thatha, and on this occasion the Jam, asking for quarter had an interview with the Sultan, and with all the Zamindars accompanied him to Dihli, and from there took his leave after being kindly treated and confirmed on his former footing as ruler of Thatha. In the year 772 H.