Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.39.6

78.39.6

In this year the Emperor sent Sayyid ‘Abd-ullah post haste to the Khan Jahan (who was encamped against Daud near K’halgaon, and was awaiting the arrival of Muzaffar Khan, and the army of Bihar and Haji-pur) entrusted with a firman expressing his anxiety for those Amirs, and promising the speedy arrival of His Majesty in person. And he despatched five lacs of rupees by a mounted messenger, as a subsidy to that army, and also ordered several vessels to start from Agrah laden with corn for the troops. Then news arrived that Gujpati, a zamindar of the neighbourhood of Haji-pur and Patnah, who had been subjugated, had rebelled, and gathering together a force, had attacked Farhat Khan, and his son Mirak Radai, who were in the station of Ara, and had brought them both to the grade of martyrdom, and now held all the roads. On this account an the twenty-fifth of Rabi'ul akhir of the aforesaid year the Emperor started towards the east of Hind, and came to a halt within five cosses of his goal (P. 238). At this halting-place Sayyid ‘Abd-ullah Khān sent the head of Dā'ūd : and this verse, which Sayyid Mīr Kal at the moment of returning from Patnah to Jounpūr had chosen as a charm of prophetic meaning, came true:— “News of the victory suddenly came, The head of Dā'ūd came to the Court.” And the history of the battle is concisely as follows. When Sayyid ‘Abd-ullah Khān joined the army of the Khān Jahān in the neighbourhood of K'halgāon, he was very anxious to attack the enemy.