Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.7.5

78.7.5

When Asaf Khan was conducting hostilities against the Khan Zaman and was encamped at the fort of Narhan, he had been much wounded and annoyed by these matters, so that one midnight, seizing the opportunity, he together with his brother Vazir Khan, and such troops as he had, fled towards the district of Garha Katangah, and arrived at Garha. On the receipt of news of this circumstance the Emperor appointed Mun‘im Khan, Khan-Khanan, in his place as generalissimo of that army, and appointed Shuja'at Khan to go in pursuit of Asaf Khan. Shuja'at Khan embarked from Manikpur, and endeavoured to cross the Ganges, but Asaf Khan (who had retreated for some distance), as soon as he heard this returned, and came to the river-bank to hinder his passage. There he fought a severe battle, and prevented the flotilla of Shuja‘at Khan from crossing, so that the latter, when night came on, was obliged to return to the side from which he started. Then Asaf Khan on the other bank of the river, with his whole army went off to his own jagir. At this juncture Shuja'at Khan, finding the field open, proceeded by another road to Karah, and went some distance in pursuit of an enemy, the skirt of whose garments he could not reach even in thought ; and, when he found that there was a great distance between them, he returned to Jounpur and came of the Court.