Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.5.4

78.5.4

Aṣaf Khān marched against Choura-gaṛh, and the son of the aforesaid queen, after fighting for his life, joined the queen. So much treasure fell into the hands of Aṣaf Khān and his soldiery, that the Creator alone is competent to compute its amount. On the strength of this wealth Aṣaf Khān set up the pretensions of a Qārūn and a Shadād, until eventually he went under-ground:— “Though thy corn and wealth be ne’er so great, All thy coffers full, thy barns be sate; Boast not! on the Judgment-day thou’lt find, Poisonous serpents round thy wealth entwined.” On the 12th of the month Zī-qa‘dah of this year, the Emperor went on an elephant-hunt towards Narwar, and after taking many elephants by means of wonderful contrivances, even in the midst of the rainy season, passing by Sārang-pur in the country of Mālwa, at the end of the month Zī-hijjah he encamped in that district. And ‘Abd-ullah Khān Uzbek, by reason of some defalcations of which he had been guilty, withdrew his family from Mandū, and took the road for Gujrāt. And, for all that Muqīm Khān (who on that march received the title of Shujā‘at Khān) went to him and offered conciliatory measures seasoned with good advice, but 'Abd-ullah Khan would not accept them ;— "If a place to take it thou canst find, Thy counsel, may be, it will take; But what mark, if the ear of the mind Is dull, can eloquence then make?"