Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.3.2

79.3.2

It need hardly be said that by Hakím Abu-l-Fath, who was a bottle-man rather than a battle-man, and by Patr Dás, who was a Hindú writer, no great signs of valour would be likely to be shown in this time. Muzaffar Khán sent a farmán to the Qáqsháls, expressing his wish to conciliate them all, and promising to confirm them in their jágírs. But they sent him answer, that he must send to them Razwí Khán and Patr Dás as a guarantee of his sincerity. Accordingly he sent them the aforenamed together with Mír Abú Is-hâq, son of Mír Sayyid Rafí’ud-dín Muhaddis, all of whom they imprisoned, and then applied themselves still more vigorously to rebellion. Meanwhile Mullá Tib and Rái Purushtam, Bakhshí, who had at one blow confiscated the jágírs of Ma’çúm Khán, and ‘Arab Bahádur and the other Amírs of Bihár, and had thus laid the foundations of unpleasantness, and allowing their violence and arrogance to exceed all bounds had forced them into rebellion, crossed the river Josá with their whole force in order to attack Ma’çúm Khán. But ‘Arab Bahádur came upon Rái Purushtam unawares, and having slain him took much spoil. Then having opened a correspondence with Bábá Khan Qaqshal with a view to co-operating with him, he hastened to Garhi. On the side of Muzaffar Khan Khwajah Shams-ud-din Muhammad Khawafi (who is now Diwan-i-kul) opposed their entrance into Garhi.