Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.17.5

78.17.5

And in spite of his being married to the daughter of Mahdi Qasim Khan, and in spite of her affection for him, he married a daughter of his own uncle Ghazanfar Beg. After a time he left her in helplessness, and the daughter of Mahdi Qasim Beg at Khairabad with her brothers, and set off from Lak'hnou with the intention of carrying on a religious war, and of breaking the idols and destroying the idol-temples. He had heard that the bricks of these were of silver and gold, and conceiving a desire for this and all the other abundant and unguarded treasures, of which he had heard a lying report, he set out by way of Oudh to the Sawalik mountains. The mountaineers, as is their custom, immediately abandoned their positions, after a slight resistance, and took refuge in the high and dangerous mountains. When Husain Khan arrived at the place where Sultan Muhammad, nephew of Pir Muhammad Khan had been martyred, and which is a burial-place of martyrs, he read the Fatihah for those pure spirits, and built a suffah over the dilapidated tombs of those martyrs. Then he ravaged the country as far as the district of Wajrail, which is part of the territory of Rajah Banka, a powerful zamindar.