The Book of Akbar 136

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Description of various auspicious events in this year (933), of the news of the rebellion of Rana Sanga and of the meeting of his Highness Jahanbani with his Majesty Giti-sitani.
On Wednesday, 24 Safar (30th Nov., 1526), orders were issued to his Highness Jahanbani that he should make over Jaunpur to some officers and himself return with all speed, as Rana Sanga was advancing with a large army of Hindus and Muhammadans. The conveyance of this message was given to Muhammad 'Ali, son of Mihtar Haidar Rikabdar.
In this year Nizam Khan, the governor of Biana, did homage through the instrumentality of that fountain of blessings Rafi'u-d-din Safavi, and made over the fortress of Biana to the imperial officers. Tatar Khan also tendered Gwaliar and kissed the threshold; and Muhammad Zaitun made over Dholpur and submitted himself. Everyone received royal favours corresponding to his sincerity and loyalty and was secured against calamities.
On 16 Rabi'u-l-awwal (21st Dec.) of this year, the mother of Sultan Ibrahim formed a plot by the means of the cooks which had a happy issue,—the crude imaginings of evil-disposed persons coming to nothing and they themselves meeting with punishment.
When the orders were received by his Highness Jahāngīr, he appointed Shāh Mīr Husain and Amīr Sultān Junaid Barlās to the command of Jaunpur, and leaving Qāzī Jīa who was one of those trained up by his Majesty Gītī-sitānī, to assist these two officers, he set out for the capital. He also appointed Shaikh Bāyazīd to Oudh and as ‘Ālam Khān held Kālpī and it was necessary to dispose of him, either peaceably or by force, he led his victorious army thither. By working on his hopes and fears, he brought him into the path of obedience, and taking him in his train, presented him at the world-protecting Court. On Sunday, 3rd Rabī‘u-s-sānī, he arrived at the Cārbāgh, known later as the Hasht Bihisht (Eight Paradises) and which was by its verdure the spring of power and fortune, and presented himself before his Majesty Gītī-sitānī. On the same day Khwāja Dost Khāwand arrived from Kābul, and was received with honour.
At this time representations were continually arriving from Mahdī Khwāja who was in Biāna, about the rebellion of Rānā Sangā and his warlike preparations.