Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.25.5

79.25.5

The Emperor suspecting Mirza Yusuf Khan, who was in the camp, consigned him for some days to the charge of Shaikh Abu-l-Fazl. Meanwhile he sent forward Shaikh Farid Bakshi with Qazi 'Abd-ur-rahim of Luk'hnou and another army, and himself awaited the Prince's arrival on the banks of the Chanalb. At P'hambar, which is the beginning of the passes and mountainous country, news arrived, that Yadgar had come out of the city Kashmir with a large force, intent on fighting, and that he had alighted at a pass called Hirapur, and at night with the greatest carelessness had given himself up to debauchery in his tent. In the middle of the night some of the servants of Mirza Yusuf Khan, together with a band of Afghans, attacked him and put him to death. They brought his treacherous head after three days to Court. This victory so quickly gained was a lesson to men. They reckoned that from the accession of Yadgar to the day that his head was brought into the camp was forty days. His head came into the army like a ball in a game at tennis, and afterwards was exalted to the battlements of the fortress of Lahor. When in the month of Zi-hijjah of this year the Author came from Badaun to the Camp in accordance with orders, Hakim Humam represented to the Emperor at the station of P'hambar, that I wished to pay him homage. The Emperor asked how long I had been absent from my post? He replied, Five months. The Emperor asked, On what pretext? He replied, On the score of sickness.