Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.4.2

61.4.2

Leaving Agra he went to Gwaliar, and made it his capital. When Khawas Khan and ‘Isa Khan Niyazi, who had made common cause, left the battle field ‘Isa Khan went to the hill country, [while Khawas Khan with five or six hundred cavalry fled to Lahor], [and (Islam Khan)] Islam Shah appointed Shams Khan Lahor as Governor of Lahor; and at a time when Shams Khan had come out for some undertaking to a distance of thirty krohs from Lahor, Khawass Khan, with three or four hundred cavalry, each individual man of whom could have withstood an army, advanced with the idea of taking Lahor, and encamped in the grove of Kamran Mirza. The inhabitants of Lahor shutting themselves up in the fort held the city till the arrival of Shams Khan, and Khawass Khan, having cut down the lofty trees of Safidar and Chinar of that grove, had set about making Sabat and ladders, when his cavalry brought news that Rai Husain Jilwani and other Amirs of Salim Shah’s party with an army of thirty thousand cavalry had arrived in the neighbourhood of Lahor. Khawass Khan, after a conference with ‘Isa Khan, abandoned the siege, and went out some five or six krohs to meet (his enemy), and with five hundred veteran cavalry well tried in war hurled himself against that wall of steel. Rai Husain said to his men, leave the way open so that this black calamity may pass through our midst.