Muntakhab al-tawarikh 60.8

60.8

Humayun marched to oppose Sultan Mahmud, and Baban and Bayazid, who were with him. When the two armies met Shir Khan, who had stood aloof from Sultan Mahmud for some days, again joined his force, and sent a message to Mir Hindu Beg Quchin, Commander-in-chief of the Mughal army, saying that on the day of the battle he would make a flank movement and stand on one side. You and the Afghans, said he, well know how utterly I abhor and detest the command of Sultan Mahmud and Baban and Bayazid. Verse If I committed a fault, I have at all events made my road clear. Eventually he did as he had arranged, and Sultan Mahmud and Baban being defeated retired to the country of Patna, and made no further attempts to fight, till in the year 949 H. (1542 A.D.) in the country of Orissa he encamped on the frontiers of the desert of non-existence, and having gone to the appointed goal remained at rest. Humayun Padshah [after this victory] sent Mir Hindu Beg as his agent to Shir Khan with a demand to him to yield up the fort at Chunar. He, however, made some lame excuse, so the king ordered several noted Amirs to precede him and lay siege to that fortress, himself also preparing to follow them. In the meanwhile Shir Khan wrote a petition in which he pointed out his own sincerity and the favour shewn him by Babar, and recounted the deserving nature of his former services, more specially his opposition to Baban and Bayazid.