Tarikh-i Hindi 14: Eighteenth Year of the Reign.
Tarikh-i Hindi, of Rustam 'Ali (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 14
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The enemy went to the territory of Mewár, which is ruled by the Rána, reached the city of Udípur, and having taken a contribution from the Rana, turned towards Marwar, plundered the city of Mirta, took some tribute from Bakht Singh, Raja of Nagor, and then arrived at Ajmir. The Mahratta chiefs alighted from their horses, and with the utmost respect visited the tomb of the great and venerable Khwaja, and thence advanced to the fort of Rupnagar. Raja Sawant Singh had busied himself in strengthening the fort with heavy guns. The army of the enemy, seeing no way of success, retreated, after suffering much loss, towards Jaipur. In the mean time, Yadgar Khan Edo, Saiyid Kirparam, and Najabat 'Ali Khan, the nephew of Husain 'Ali Khan, went to Jai Singh, to request his interposition in coming to some accommodation with the enemy. All these officers, with the concurrence of Raja Jai Singh, gave the enemy in the district of Kishangarh a sum of twenty lacs of rupees on the part of the Emperor, to induce them to return to the Dakhin, when they themselves returned to Dehli.
During this year Burhanu-l Mulk Sa'adat Khan went towards Kora Jahanabad. The chief of that tract, named Bhagwant, son of Udaru, who before this, having killed Jan Nisar Khan, governor of that place, had greatly injured and oppressed the peasantry, on receiving the news of the Burhanu-l Mulk's advance, marched forward with a body of vagabonds amounting to twenty-five thousand horse and foot. The army of Burhanu-l Mulk, excepting himself and two thousand horse, had not yet crossed the Ganges, when suddenly the army of that ringleader of the infidels appeared. After both parties had met, much fighting ensued. Bhagwant Singh himself shot an arrow which wounded Burhanu-l Mulk in the arm. But that lion of the field of courage immediately drew it out, and in turn shot that vile infidel in the forehead, and sent him to the next world. Many of his followers were slain, and the rest fled away. Burhanu-l Mulk victoriously returned to camp, and ordered him to be flayed, and his skin to be filled with straw. His head and that of his son were placed on the points of spears and sent to the capital.
In the beginning of Sha'ban of this year the compiler of this work saw with his own eyes the skins and heads of both those unfortunate wretches hanging in the bazar of Dehli near the Police Office.