Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.8.4

78.8.4

And Shāh Budāgh Khān was thrown from his horse, but not before he had given substantial proof of his valour, and his son ‘Abd-ul-Matlab, putting forth as much strength as he could, seized him by the hand, but in vain. Eventually the son escaped and the father fell into the hands of Uzbeks: — “When he was free from sorrow, he reckoned him a dear friend, When he came to grief, he deserted him.” And Rāja Todar Mal, and Lashkar Khān, who at the beginning had remained inactive, began now to fight vigorously, until evening, but without success. They became separated, but the next day they rejoined one another, and came to Sher-gadh, and reported the state of affairs to the Court. And now we come to the point where we left off about the Khān Zamān. When the Khān Khānān brought to the Court the mother of the Khān Zamān, and Ibrāhīm Khān, together with Mīr Hādī Sadr and Nizām Āghā, who were trusty friends of the Khān Zamān, and presented the war-elephants to His Majesty, then Ibrāhīm Khān, with head bare, and a sword and a shroud round his neck in the place of a cloak, delivered himself up, and said in an impromptu: — “Wilt thou spare me, or wilt thou slay me, The option lies with thee.”