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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.40.6

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 78.40.6

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78.40.6

At this camping-place Shihab Khan, and Shah Budagh Khan with his son ‘Abd-ul-Matlab and Shah Fakhr-ud-din Khan and other zamindars of Malwah, came and paid their respects. And the Emperor left Ghazi Khan Badakhshi, who had been raised to the rank of Commander of a Thousand, with Sharif Muhammad Khan Atgah, and Mujahid Khan, and Turk Subhan Quli, with 3,000 cavalry at the station of Mohani. And the military commanders ‘Abdurrahman Beg son of Jalaluddin Beg, and ‘Abdurrahman son of Mu’ayyad Beg he left with 500 troops in the hill district; but he sent for Qutbuddin Khan and Rajah Bhagvan Das from Gogandah, and having stationed Shah Fakhruddin and Jaganath in Udipur, and Sayyid ‘Abdullah Khan and Rajah Bhagvan Das at the entrance of the defile of Udipur, the Emperor went himself into the neighbourhood of Banswala and Dungarpur. At this place Rajah Todar Mal arrived from Bengal, and brought to the Emperor 500 elephants from the spoil of that kingdom, and other valuables. While at this place he sent Qulij Khan (whom he had recalled from I'dar, and appointed Asaf Khan as leader of the army in his stead) together with Kalyan Rai Baqqal an inhabitant of Cambay to the port of Surat to obtain an agreement from the Europeans, so as to set free the ships of Sultan Khwajah, which for want of such an agreement were lying idle. Afterwards he was to come to Malwah and join the army.