Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.2.7

77.2.7

Nearly 1500 elephants, and treasure and stores, to such an amount that even fancy is powerless to imagine it, were taken as spoil. And Pir Muhammad Khan, and Husain Khan, (P. 17) a relation of Mahdi Qasim Khan, and many others, in consort with Sa'id Khan the Moghul, pursued the fugitives from Dihli, and passing from Alwar they came up to the wife of Hemun, who had with her elephants laden with gold. She herself gained the mountain and jungle ground in the district of Kuwa (?) and Bajwara, but left the gold behind, the greater part of which the rustics of the country of Bajwara seized; still the part which fell into the hands of the army of the Faithful was so great that they gave it away by shieldfuls, and “nizar-i-zarha” “scattering of gold pieces” was found to give the date (961). And on the road, which the Queen took, there had fallen such quantities of coins and ingots of gold, that for many a year travellers and passers-by used to find them. In this manner the treasures, which Sher Shah and Aslim Shah and ‘Adali had amassed through a course of years, were dissipated:—