Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.2.2

77.2.2

Near to Toghlaq Ābād [the ancient fortress] in the environs of Dihli a sharp conflict occurred, and ‘Abd-ullah Khan the Uzbek, and La‘l Khan of Badakhshan, who were on the right wing, sweeping the hostile ranks before them, continued the pursuit as far as the towns of Houdal and Palwal, and took much spoil. But Hēmun, who with elephants huge as mountains had remained apart from the fray in the centre of the army, shouted out for Haji Khan who came up from the direction of Alwar, and then attacked Tardi Beg Khan, who had but a handful of men, and in a single charge swept him before him; but he turned back for fear of treachery, and did not pursue the Moghul. At the time of evening prayer, when the Amirs of the army returning from their pursuit [of the left wing of Hemun’s army] reached the camping-place, they, finding that Hemun himself had settled down there, having drawn out softly from the city of Dihli took immediately to flight. (P. 14.) But Hemun forbad his men to pursue them. And Khan Zaman by way of Mirat’h joined this army at Sirhind. The emperor when he heard this dreadful news appointed Khizr Khan Khwaja, the husband of Gulbadan Begum the emperor’s aunt, to meet Sikandar, and intending to extirpate Hemun he made his glorious entry into Sirhind. And there the scattered Amirs came to salute him. The Khan Khanan, who, although he was in disposition alienated from Tardi Beg Khan, still in spite of this used to call him “Toqan,” i.