The Akbarī Generations 80.5

80.5

When the Emperor reached Atak, he sent Bhagwan Das, Shah Kuli Mahram, and other well-known amirs, with about 5000 horse, to effect the conquest of Kashmir. On the same day Isma'il Kuli Khan and Rai Singh were sent against the Biluchis. Next day Zain Khan Koka was sent with a force against the Afghans of Swad (Swat) and Bajaur, to reduce that turbulent people to order. The Emperor encamped at Atak on the 15th Muharram, 994. In former times a Hindustani soldier had come among the Afghans, and set up an heretical sect. He induced many foolish people to become his disciples, and he gave himself the title of Pir Roshani. He was dead, but his son Jalala, a youth of about fourteen, came, in the year 989 h., to wait upon the Emperor, as he was returning from Kabul. He was kindly received; but after a few days his evil disposition induced him to take flight, and go off to the Afghans. There he raised disturbances; and gathering a good number of men around him, he shut up the roads between Hindustan and Kabul. In order to repress this base sect of Roshanáis, whose baseness will be hereafter described, His Majesty placed Kunwar Man Singh in command, and gave him Kabul in jágír. When intelligence arrived of Zain Khan Koka having entered the country of Swat, and of his having encountered this sect of Afgháns, who were as numerous as ants and locusts, on the 2nd Safar, 994 H., Saiyid Khán Gakhar, Raja Bírbal, and * * * were sent with forces to support him.