Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.13.5

79.13.5

Two Amirs, imbecile in their actions, to whom the following verse applies:— “I and my tutor are two poor old men, Who want, the two of us, two good tutors.” with twisted reins, and broken crupper:— “Their body not strong, their heart not patient, Their fortune not friendly, their intellect not their guide,” rode by night from Kari with a few followers, and arrived in the morning at Osmanpur. Muzaffar made his entree without fear or shame, with his troops drawn up as an istiqbal and stood on the sandy shore of the river of Ahmadabad. Meanwhile those two old men as a means of scattering the rebels, and with a view to re-encouraging the scattered royalists were occupied in collecting debts, and writing requisitions, and despatching letters! And when things became desperate, not having any confidence in their followers they did not dare to offer battle, but helpless as sheep for the slaughter fled to the town of Patan, which is the same as Nahrwalah, and situated four or five cosses from Ahmadabad, which they reached in one day. All the goods and chattels of the army were looted, and the wives and families of the soldiers were made prisoners (P. 329). Muhammad Sharif, son of Nizam-ud-din Ahmad with his soldiers abandoned the protection of house and family, and managed to join his father. The fugitives, together with another body of Amirs, who had come to their assistance from Fathpur, and amounted to one thousand horse, repaired the fortress of Patan, and made a stand there.