Muntakhab al-tawarikh 49.2.5
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 49.2.5
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49.2.5
Then in the year 802 H. (1399 A.D.) Iqbal Khan marched against Shams Khan Auhadi the ruler of Baiana, and the hostile forces met in the vicinity of Nuh and Jalesar; fortune favoured Iqbal Khan and Shams Khan proceeded to Baiana. Iqbal Khan led his army towards Kaithar and exacted contributions of money and services from Rai Harsingh. And in this same year Khwaja-i Jahan was received into the mercy of God in Jaunpur. Quatrain. How long wilt thou say “Who has drunk the cup of pleasure?” How long wilt thou say “Who has gained the palm of fortune?” What avail all those idle tales, for we must depart, What profit in all those empty stories, since death must come. And Malik Mubarak Qaranfal, having assumed the title of Mubarak Shah, took his place. And in Jamada-l-Awwal in the year 803 H. (1400 A.D.) Shams Khan of Baiana and Mubarak Khan son of Bahadur Nahir had an interview with Iqbal Khan, who taking them with him fought a battle near Baitali on the banks of the Blackwater, which is known as the Kalapani, with Rai Sir the ruler of that district, and overcame him, and pursued the infidels as far as the confines of Itawa; and on his arrival at Qanauj, Sultanu-sh-Sharq Mubarak Shah came up from Jaunpur and sat down over against him on the other bank of the river Ganges, but inasmuch as neither of them could effect a crossing, they each returned to their own country without doing anything. As he returned, Iqbal Khan treacherously put to death Shams Khan and Mubarak Khan.