Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.9.3

78.9.3

Of stores there were none in the fort, so that they were reduced to eating the flesh of horses, camels, and cows, and the matter touched the life, and the knife reached the bone, and yet no assistance came from any side; still, however much Mirza Ibrahim Husain might bring forward proposals of peace, the garrison would not give in. Till, one morning, they put the head of Qadam Khan (Muqarrab Khan’s brother, who had been killed at Hindia), upon the point of a lance, and showed it to Muqarrab Khan, and let him know that Hindia was taken, and that his kith and kin and the inhabitants of the place were all prisoners. Moreover they brought his mother, and setting her where he could see her, said : “Since the family and dependants of Muqarrab Khan are in this condition, with what confidence do you go on fighting ?” Then Muqarrab Khan, being helpless, and rather a Muqarrab-ghulám than a Muqarrab-Khan, went and saw the Mirzas. Then, having granted Husain Khan quarter, and got him out under treaty, they at first tried to press him into their service, but when he did not seem to see it, they let him go unharmed. Eventually in the year nine hundred and seventy-four (974), at the time when the Emperor had gone from Lahor to Agra, he went, and did homage to him, and was favourably received, and the Emperor gave him in addition to Patiyali, which was his jágír, the Purganna of Shamsabad.