Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.4.3

61.4.3

Accordingly he made a breach in the line of Salim Shah’s army, and attacked them again from the rear and threw them into confusion. At this juncture he received a wound in the knee which bore him from his horse to the ground, but his opponents had not sufficient enterprise to come up to him and take him prisoner, and he was openly borne off the field upon a charpoy. Rai Hasan forbade his men to give pursuit, and Khawass Khan went off in safety towards Nagarkot, whence he proceeded to the foot of the Kumaon hills. The final issue of his affairs will be related shortly in its own place, if God, He is exalted, so will it. The Niyazi faction set their hearts upon the government of Kashmir, but by the craft of the Kashmiris were enticed into bye-ways, and eventually reached their rest in the corner of destruction, as will be mentioned, if God, He is exalted, so will it. And in the year 954 H. (1547 A.D.) an Afghan named Usman, whose hand Sazawal Khan had cut off for some reason, one day laid an ambush in Agra, and at the entrance to a road aimed a blow at Sazawal Khan and wounded him. Sazawal Khan went to the camp, and represented that this attack had been made at the instance of Salim Shah, he then took his way to Malwa. Islam Shah pursued him as far as Banswala, but seeing that Sazawal had taken shelter among the Zamindars of Sarui, Salim Shah left ‘Isa Sur with twenty thousand cavalry in Ujjain, and reached the capital.