Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.5.5

78.5.5

'Abd-ullah Khan for a short time made a stand at Harawal, but when news of the approach of the Imperial cavalcade reached him, he plundered to the force of circumstances the greater part of his followers and family, and children and chattels, and sending before him only what was absolutely necessary, by a hundred stratagems managed to reach Gujrat. There he took refuge with Chingiz Khan, a dependent of Sultan Mahmud of Gujrat, who had succeeded Sultan Mahmud in the government of that province, and had become possessed of great power. The Imperial army went in pursuit of him as far as the confines of Gujrat, and throwing his haram retinue into confusion, and made them prisoners, sent them to the Emperor. The remainder became a prey to their enemies, the countrymen and landowners. Now the state of civil life in Gujrat in the time of Chingiz Khan, they describe as such as it had been during the reign of former kings; and the dissemination of learning and excellence was such, as to exceed all imagination; and any soldier or traveller or stranger who came and had an interview or chose to enter his service, had no further need of begging, nor of the patronage of any one else. And they say that every day he gave away among his people five or six dresses of honour from his private wardrobe, each single dress being never worth less than 70 or 80, at any ashrafi.