Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.10.8

61.10.8

It was currently reported that from the time when the dagger was first invented in Hindūstān no person can have ever used it in the way that Sikandar Khān did. A tumult arose among the people, and ‘Adilī fled and entered the women’s quarters and put up the chain on the inside. Sikandar after that he had killed some and wounded others, at last made towards ‘Adilī and aimed a blow at him with a sword which however struck a plank of the door; had he attacked him in the entrance he would have despatched him. The Amīrs of ‘Adilī’s party shewed themselves in their true colours that day, as most of them cast away their swords and took to flight, and were going about distractedly, till at last, after Sikandar had done as much mischief as salt in the yeast they attacked him simultaneously from all sides. This contest went on for three or four hours, when Sikandar fell to a blow from the sword of Ibrāhīm Khān Sūr, sister’s husband to ‘Adilī, and Shāh Muḥammad was struck down by the sword of Daulat Khān Lūhānī, both of them taking their way to the city of non-existence. It so happened that on that day before the assembly of that meeting Tāj Khān Karrānī, the brother of ‘Amad and Sulaiman, who eventually became the autocratic ruler of the province of Bengal, and gave himself the titled of Hazrat A‘ala, having left the audience hall of ‘Adli was going outside the fort, when on his way he met with Shah Muhammad Farmuli.