Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.11.3

78.11.3

And, when the imperial camp was pitched at the town of Rai Bareli, news arrived that Khan Zaman and Bahadur Khan had crossed the river Ganges and fled towards Kalpi. Consequently the Emperor, directing that the camp, under Khwajah Jahan, should be moved on towards Karah, set off with all speed for Manikpur. Mounted upon an elephant he crossed the stream, and at that time there were not with him more than fifteen or sixteen persons. And Majnun Khan, and Asaf Khan, who were in the vanguard, kept from time to time sending back information concerning the whereabouts of the enemy. It so happened that Khan Zaman and Bahadur Khan, over whose eyes Fate had drawn the blinding iron of negligence, in accordance with the following: — ‘When Fate lets down its wings from the sky, All the prudent become blind and deaf’ — had spent the whole night at a wine-party, and in watching an exhibition of Patar-dancing, and, their cup being full, they looked on the intelligence of the enemy’s advance, which the scouts kept bringing in, as merely an act of rashness on the part of Majnun Khan (for which they cared no more, than for a measure stuffed with straw) ; but, as for the Emperor's approach, they had no intimation of it, and indeed never dreamt of such a thing. On this day the Emperor was mounted on an elephant named Sundar, and lie placed Mirza Kokah, surnamed A’zam Khan in the houda with him.