Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.3.2

77.3.2

And especially Muhammad Husayn Khan, a relation of Mahdi Qasim Khan, was so persevering in those attacks that if Rustam had been alive, he would certainly have acknowledged his merits. Moreover his brother Hasan Beg was killed:— “Upon the top of thy mountain Hasan was slain, Greater than of Karbala of thee is the bane.” And this perseverance, which was observed on the one side by the Emperor, and on the other by Sikandar, was the reason of the high estimation in which Husayn Khan was held, and raised him day by day to a higher rank, so that valuable lands were made over to him in fief, till at last he came into the government of Lahor, and in many places defeated the rebels. When eventually the siege turned out of long duration, and corn became dear among the garrison, and the Amirs of Sikandar one by one deserted him, and came to the imperial court, as for instance Sayyid Mahmud Barha, and others, he brought forward proposals of peace, and sent his son ‘Abd ur-Rahman, together with Ghazi Khan Sur, with a present of elephants to visit the Emperor, through the intervention of Atka Khan and Pir Muhammad Khan, on the 27th of Ramzan in the year 964, and surrendered the fort. Then Akbar issued his firman that Jounpur should be given temporarily to Sikandar in fief, and that as soon as the Khan Zaman should deliver the country before him [i. e. Bengal] out of the hands of the Afghans, he should (P. 19) take his place. So Sikandar skirting the mountains came to Jounpur.