Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.3.5

79.3.5

Muhammad Ma‘sūm Khān Kābulī, and the Qāqshāls and Mīrzā Sharaf-ud-dīn Husain with 30,000 gallant horsemen, and 50 elephants and a number of boats and cannon in battle array seemed to intend to offer battle in the neighbourhood of the town of Mungīr (P. 283). The Rājah since he could not quite trust his army, which was on the look-out for the slightest change of fortune, did not deem it prudent to fight in the open, and so shut himself up in the fortress of Mungīr. Every day skirmishes took place, and the Imperial army was reduced to great distress. At this time Zain-ud-dīn Kambu, a relative of Shahbāz Khān brought by water a lac of rupees under a postal-guard, and delivered them over to the Rājah. This supported him for a few days. In the same way the Emperor sent a lac of rupees every few days, one time by the hand of Daryā Khān Ābdār, another time by Sarmadī, and another time by a son of the banker Bhagwān Dās the treasurer, and so received news each time. Of the number of the postal-guard was one ‘Abd-ul-Hay Khawwās, a handsome man without brains, son of Qāzī Sadr-ud-dīn Sambhalī (who also in a blundering sort of way used to discuss ceremonial and religious matters), he died young, and his barque of life was drawn into the whirlpool of calamity.