Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 105.4

105.4

while Yekhlas Khan's party, gaining confidence, advanced, and laid siege to the place, both by a close blockade and regular approaches; at the same time he sent a message to the governor of Dowlutabad to release Nehung Khan, the Abyssinian, and Hubbush Khan Movullid, who had been in close confinement ever since the reign of Boorhan Nizam Shah II. This order was immediately complied with; not so the order which he sent to Chawund for the delivery of the Prince Bahadur into his hands, with which the governor refused to comply, without the express command of Meean Munjoo. Yekhlas Khan, in the mean time, procuring a child of the same age in the bazar of Ahmudnuggur, proclaimed him as the descendant and lawful heir of the late Ibrahim Nizam Shah, and by this means collected between ten and twelve thousand cavalry. Meean Munjoo, alarmed at the progress which Yekhlas Khan and the Abyssinians made, wrote in a fit of desperation a letter to the Prince Moorad Mirza, the son of Akbur Padshah, then in Guzerat, to march to his assistance, promising to give up the revenues of the Ahmudnuggur state to him. Moorad Mirza, who was deputed for the eventual purpose of taking advantage of the first opportunity to invade the Deccan, availed himself of the invitation; but before the letter could even have reached him, the Abyssinian chiefs fell out about the distribution of places, and a mutiny took place in Yekhlas Khan's camp.