Muntakhab al-tawarikh 46.2

46.2

(1389 A.D.) and in the following month of Rabi'ul Akhir of the same year, set out to capture Dihli with a force of 50,000 and alighted at the palace of Jahan Numa, where he bestowed upon the Amirs suitable appointments, among others he conferred upon the Governor of Multan the title of Ghazi Khan, and Abu Bakr Shah having raised an army for the assistance of Bahadur Nahir Khanzada of Mewat, on the (2nd) of Jamadiul Awwal of the aforesaid year engaged in battle on the plains of Firuzabad with Muhammad Shah and gained the day. Muhammad Shah, with two thousand cavalry, crossed the river Jamna and entered the Doab, and sent Humayun Khan his younger son to Samana, and having obtained thence a great following and the requirements of sovereignty, and taking with him certain Amirs of Hindustan with fifty thousand cavalry, a second time marched his standards towards Dihli. As it chanced he became engaged in battle with Abu Bakr Shah and was again defeated, and Abu Bakr Shah pursued him part of the way, but considered it an excellent opportunity to return. Muhammad Shah arrived at Chaptar, which is a town on the banks of the Ganges, and giving over his following to destruction once more attempted to fight. And in the month of Muharram of the year 792 H.