Muntakhab al-tawarikh 64.10

64.10

On one occasion Hīmūn was one day presiding at a public banquet, and summoning the Afghān Amīrs into his presence, to the head of the table he urged them to partake of food, saying: “Help yourselves to the largest morsels,” and if he saw anyone of them eating slowly no matter who he was, he would address him in terms of the foulest abuse saying : “How can such a nondescript nonentity as you who are sluggish in eating your victuals hope to contend against your own son-in-law the Mughul in battle.” As the fall of the Afghan power was near at hand, they had not the courage to say a word to that foul infidel, and laying aside all that disregard of superior force for which they were renowned, swallowed his insults like sweetmeats, either from fear or hope, this had become a regular practice with them. Verse. Lay not your hand obsequious on my foot. Give me but bread, and brain me with your boot ! In the meanwhile news reached Himun that Muhammad Khan Sur, Governor of Bangala, had assumed the title of Sultan Jalalu-d-Din, and was marching with an army like the ants and locusts for multitude from Bangala, and having reduced Jaunpur was making for Kalpi and Agra.