Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.39.7

78.39.7

On the next day (which was the fifteenth of Rabi'ul ākhir) the Khān Jahān issued orders to the Amīrs of his own troops, and appointed to each the place he was to take. Then Muẓaffar Khān reinforced him with 5,000 horse. And Dā'ūd with the greatest presumption and pride, being supported by his paternal uncle Junaid Kararānī and other leaders, drew out of the fortress, and leaving his hiding-place offered battle. At the very first attack a cannon-ball struck the knee of Junaid and shattered it. When the armies closed with one another, defeat fell on the Afghāns. The horse of Dā'ūd stuck fast in a swamp, and Ḥasan Beg surrounded him, and brought him to Khān Jahān. Dā'ūd being overcome with thirst, asked for water. They filled his slipper with water and brought it to him. But when he refused to drink, Khān Jahān offered him his own private canteen, and allowed him to drink out of it. He did not wish to kill him, for he was a very handsome man; but finally the Amīrs said that to spare his life would be to incur suspicions as to their own loyalty, so he ordered them to cut off his head. They took two chops at his neck without success, but at last they succeeded in killing him, and in severing his head from his body. Then they stuffed it with straw, and anointed it with perfumes, and gave it in charge to Sayyid ‘Abd-ullah Khān, and sent him with it to the Emperor. They took many elephants and much spoil.