Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.7.6

77.7.6

Sher Muhammad sent Khwajah Muzaffar a prisoner to the Court, and this blow caused the Khan Khanan more despair than all the rest besides, so that starting from where he was, he set off for Jalandhar. Then Shams-ud-din Atkah Khan, and his son Yusuf Muhammad Khan, and Husain Khan the relative of Shahab Khan, and all the Amirs of the Panjab assembled in accordance with a farman, and in the confines of the parganna of Dik’hdar, at a spot called Kanur Phillour, hemmed in the Khan Khanan. There a severe contest took place, in which Husain Khan the relative of Mahdi Qasim Khan distinguished himself; but unfortunately a sword-blow struck him in the eye so that one might say of him that he was “eye stricken.” He fell from his seat in the saddle, and being made prisoner was sent to the Court together with Wali Beg, and his son Isma'il Quli Khan, and several others of the chiefs; as will soon be mentioned, if God (He is exalted!) will. After that blow the Khan Khanan fled, and immense spoil fell into the hands of Atkah Khan and his army. Among these things was a standard worked with pearls and gems, which (P. 41) the Khan Khanan had had made, and intended to have sent to the most holy sepulchre (may mercy and favour rest on its inhabitant!). Of this Imam my lord Moulawi Jami (may his tomb be hallowed!) wrote those laudatory and descriptive couplets:—