The Book of Akbar 152.2

152.2

For a time Sultan Bahadur was not caught, but at length he one day laid bare the truth, and said to Tatar Khan: “I have been a witness of the superiority of those splendid soldiers; the Gujrat army is no match for them, so I shall by craft and contrivance win over his (Humayun’s) army to myself.” Accordingly he opened the doors of his treasuries and lavished gold and thereby gained over as many as 10,000 men, who had the skill to appear as soldiers without being in reality such. During this time Muhammad Zaman Mirza escaped from confinement by the connivance of his custodians, the servants of Yadgar Beg Taghai, and came to Gujrat. The lord of that country, on account of the crude plans that he was concocting, regarded the arrival of the Mirza as a gain and treated him with great consideration. His Majesty Jahanbani wrote to Sultan Bahadur that treaties and engagements required that all who had turned obligations (huquq) of service into disobligations (‘uquq) and had fled to his (Bahadur’s) dominions, should be sent back or at least be driven out from his presence, so that their unanimity (his own and Bahadur’s) might be evidenced to the world. Sultan Bahadur, either from inexperience or the intoxication of the world, wrote in reply “Should a high-born man take refuge with us and be treated with consideration, there could not be in this any breach of good feeling or of sincerity, nor any detriment to treaties.