Muntakhab al-tawarikh 54.9
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 54.9
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54.9
By reason of the badness of the climate of that place sickness broke out among the population and a pestilence arose The Raja of Gwaliar also came and made overtures of peace, and delivered up Sa'id and Babu and Rai Ganesh, who had deserted from the army of the Sultan and had taken refuge in that fort, and also sent his eldest son to do homage to the Sultan, who sent him back after bestowing upon him a horse and robe of honour, returning himself to Agra. At the time of his return he restored the fort of Dholpur also to Binayik Deo, and having spent the rainy season in Agra, after the rising of Canopus in the year 910 H. (1504 A.D.), marched to reduce the fortress of Mandrayal, which he took without fighting from the Raja of Mandrayal, who sued for peace; he also destroyed all the idol-temples and churches of the place, and, as he returned, rebuilt anew the fortress of Dholpur, then came to Agra and gave his Amirs permission to proceed to their several jaegirs. [And in this year Mir Saiyyid Muhammad of Jaunpur, may God sanctify his holy resting place, who was one of the chief of the great walis and had even laid claim to be the Mahdi, in answer to the call of Him who has the true claim to us all answered, Here am I, while returning from Makkah the sacred city towards Hindustan, at the town of Farah where he was buried. Qazi Husain Zargar of Qandahar, God's mercy be on him] whom, as well as the Mir himself I had the honour of visiting, wrote the following chronogram: