Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.7.3

78.7.3

The Emperor also pursued in person, and encamped outside Jounpur. At that halting-place A'saf Khan with 5000 veteran horse, in company with Majnun Khan, came and paid his respects, and brought his gifts, and was graciously received. On Friday the 12th of the month Zi Hijjah of the aforesaid year the Emperor alighted at the fort of Jounpur. And A'saf Khan being made generalissimo of the army crossed the ford of Narhan and went down country to oppose the Khan Zaman. In those days the Emperor appointed Hajji Muhammad Khan Sistani to go on an embassy to Sulaiman Kararani, Governor of Bengal (who had a strong friendship for the Khan Zaman), in order to prevent his giving any aid or assistance to the Khan Zaman. When he arrived at the fortress of Rhotas, some Afghans seized him, and sent him to the Khan Zaman, with whom they had a kind of union. And the Khan Zaman, on account of the time-honoured friendship which had existed between Hajji Muhammad Khan and himself, treating him with punctilious honour and respect, settled to send his own mother with him to the Court, to intercede for himself, and entreat forgiveness for his faults.