Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.7.8

78.7.8

On this account several of the great Amirs with a great army (such as Shah Budagh Khan, and his son ‘Abd-ul-Matlab Khan, and Qiya Khan, and Sa‘id Khan, and Muhammad Ma‘sum Khan Farankhudi, and others whom it would take too long to mention) were appointed, together with Mir Mu‘izzul Mulk Mashhadi (on the stature of whose capacity the dress of commander-in-chief sat badly and unbecomingly) to undertake to oppose and drive back Iskandar and Bahadur. These armies had not yet met, while Mun‘im Khan the Khan-Khanan (who had an excessively friendly regard for the Khan Zaman) for four or five months, after the manner of an old man, kept sending soldiers with messages by letter and by word of mouth to make negotiation for peace. When Khwajah Jahan and Darbar Khan arrived at the ford of Narhan from Jounpur, in order to examine into the matter of peace or war, and to settle whether haste or delay were preferable, on the one side the Khan Zaman with three or four people, and on the other the Khan-Khanan and Khwajah Jahan, also with three or four persons, got into the same boat, and when they had had an interview, settled peace on the following terms: That the Khan Zaman should send his mother, with his uncle Ibrahim Khan Uzbek, and the famous elephants he possessed, to the Court. And that after that all his transgressions had been condoned, Sikandar and Bahadur should go themselves to the Court. Then Darbar Khan brought this news to the royal ear;