Muntakhab al-tawarikh 56.1.2
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 56.1.2
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56.1.2
Malik Adam Kakar was sent by the Sultan to defend Agra, and certain other Amirs arrived to support him. They succeeded in persuading Jalāl Khān, by making pleasing overtures and using attractive arguments, to surrender the paraphernalia of royalty and kingly splendour to the Sultan, in order that they might prefer his application for pardon of his past offences and obtain for him the Kālpī district as a jāgīr. Jalāl Khān instantly agreed, and made over his royal canopy, his kettle-drums, etcetera to Malik Adam with instructions to convey them to the Sultan in the neighbourhood of Etawa. The Sultan would not agree to his proposal of peace, and despatched a large army to oppose Jalal Khan, who fled in consternation and took refuge with the Raja of Gwaliar, and the Amirs of Sikandar’s party, who had heretofore been a source of weakness to the administration of the empire, one and all owned allegiance to the Sultan. The Sultan experienced a revulsion of feeling with regard to Miyan Bhoh, who was the chief of the Amirs of Sikandar, and had been his vazir and privy councillor, accordingly he cast him into chains and sent him to Malik Adam; however, he treated his son with kindness and advanced him to the high offices formerly held by his father. Miyan Bhoh died in prison, and A'zam Humayun Shirwani, the Governor of Karra, was sent with thirty thousand cavalry and three hundred elephants to attempt the reduction of Gwaliar.