Muntakhab al-tawarikh 56.1.5

56.1.5

The Sultan by way of precaution despatched a further force to their assistance, but the enemy, who had about forty thousand cavalry, well armed, and five hundred elephants, shewed a firm front against them, until Nasir Khan Luhani with other generals arrived from the direction of Bihar and engaged the enemy on both sides. A fierce conflict ensued between the two armies, such a conflict as baffles description, and after a severe struggle the rebels were defeated. Islam Khan was killed and Sa‘id Khan Lodi was taken prisoner, thus the rebellion was quenched. Verse. Do not inflict ingratitude upon a benefactor and generous friend, Like the cloud, which receives bounty from the ocean, and rains a storm of arrows upon its breast. As far as you are able, make the requital of favours your habit and custom, Like the river, which gives to the clouds an ocean in return for one drop of its rain. And withal that he had gained so important a victory, yet was not the heart of the Sultan favourably disposed towards the Amirs and they also being aware of this, raised in all directions the banners of antagonism. In the meanwhile, many of the eminent Amirs of royal descent, as for example A‘zam Humayun Shirwani, and Miyan Bhoh, the Vazir of Sultan Sikandar, departed from this world in the confinement of the prison house.