Muntakhab al-tawarikh 64.1

64.1

Ibrahim came round to this view but Mas'ud Khan and Husain Khan Ghilza’i with some of the new Amirs said: “Seeing that in the end the matters in dispute between us and Sikandar will one day have to be decided by the sword, now that our party has increased, while his following is exceedingly small, why should we not decide the matter at once, and not desist until we have secured ourselves against a repetition of this in the future. To agree to peace now will be a confession of weakness on our part, and an admission of the bravery of our enemies.” Upon ‘Adli also, who has crept like a rat into his hole, with all his elephants and retinue, the desire of conflict with us is creeping, and that peace which had been concluded has been confounded." Ibrahim Khan put off fighting till after the arrival of Miyan Yahya Taran, governor of Sambhal, who was famous both as a warrior and as a man of sound judgment. Miyan Yahya in the year 961 H. during the disturbances, gave battle in Badaon to twenty of 'Adli's Amirs who had been appointed to the district of Sambhal, and defeated them; he then fought a great battle on the plain of the township of Kant-o-Kahi with Raja Mitar Sen Kahtariya, who was the former ruler of Sambhal and had collected a great force, and defeated him.