Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.3.3

77.3.3

And when the Khan Zaman received possession of Jounpur, Sikandar on the authority of a firman asked for the district of Gour that he might bring it under his command. There all sorts of accidents befel him, and after some time through the game of Fortune such a position of the pieces came about that he even attached himself again to his old friends, and fickle Fate folded for him the carpet of gladness: “Fate’s chequered board is not ever kind, Nor can seed of joy be always sown, These possessions must be all resigned, Except mere dregs of joys which once were known.”