Muntakhab al-tawarikh 59.1.2

59.1.2

The pupil of his eye remained uninjured however, and shortly after, he escaped from prison and fled for refuge to Sultan Bahadur of Gujrat. It is said that at the time when Muhammad Zaman Mirza joined Sultan Bahadur, the latter was engaged in besieging Chitor, and the weather was exceedingly hot. Muhammad Zaman was seized with a pain at the heart, for the cure of which the physicians declared gulqand (confection of roses) to be indispensable. Muhammad Zaman Mirza begged Sultan Bahadur to send him a piece of this gulqand. He accordingly summoned his sharbatdar (preparer of beverages), and enquired how much gulqand there had been brought with the camp; he replied that there must be more than twenty cart loads. The whole of this he sent to the camp of Muhammad Zaman Mirza and apologetically explained that this amount had been estimated as the probable requirements of the army, if it were not sufficient he begged to be excused. It eventually transpired that the juice of the gulqand used to be extracted for his use, and that for this reason there were so many carts accompanying him. Muhammad Sultan Mirza, with his two sons Ulugh Mirza and Shah Mirza, proceeded to Qanauj and laid the foundations of revolt, and when the king, now deceased, wrote and despatched to Sultan Bahadur letters summoning Muhammad Zaman Mirza, Sultan Bahadur sent back a discourteous reply; he accordingly determined upon the conquest of Gujrat.