The Book of Akbar 156: CHAPTER XXIII.

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by 30,000 chosen horsemen, while the camp was ordered to follow stage by stage.
When the victorious troops came near Campanir they halted, and drew up by the side of the Pipli Gate near the tank of 'Imadu-l-mulk which is three kos in circumference. When Sultan Bahadur heard of this, he strengthened the fort and went out by another gate, on the side of the Shukr tank, and fled to Cambay. By his instructions the town (Campanir) was set on fire, but when his Majesty Jahanbani arrived, he directed the flames to be extinguished. Leaving Mir Hindu Beg and the rest in Campanir he took about a thousand horse and set off rapidly in pursuit of Sultan Bahadur. As soon as the Sultan came to Cambay he hastened to Diu, after setting fire to a hundred warships (Gharab), which he had prepared against the Portuguese, lest the soldiers of the sublime army should embark on them and pursue him. On the same day that he left for Diu, his Majesty Jahanbani reached Cambay and encamped by the seaside. From thence he despatched a force in pursuit of Sultan Bahadur. When the Sultan reached Diu, the victorious soldiers returned from its neighbourhood with abundance of booty. By the favours of heaven were Mandu and Gujrat conquered in 942 (1535). Whoever is stayed upon God and whose standard is a good intention, will assuredly have his desire placed within his bosom.
In the beginning of Sha'ban of this year, (25th January, 1536) Mirza Kamran marched from Lahor to Kabul, and after a great battle won a victory over Sam Mirza, the brother of Shah Tahmasp Safavi. The short account of this is as follows. Sam Mirza came to Qandahar with a large body of Qizilbashis (Persians). Khwaja Kilan Beg had strengthened Qandahar and defended it for eight months. Meanwhile Mirza Kamran marched from Lahor with a full equipment. A great battle took place between him and Sam Mirza. Aghziwar Khan, one of the great officers of the Qizilbashis and Sam Mirza's tutor, was taken prisoner and put to death, and many of the Qizilbashis perished. Mirza Kamran returned victorious to Lahor. and the disturbance caused by Mirza Muhammad Zaman was put down. The explanation of this is briefly this. It has been already mentioned that after the defeat of Sultan Bahadur, M. Muhammad Zaman marched against Lahor with the idea of stirring up strife there. When he came to the borders of Sind, Shah Husain, the son of Shah Beg Afghan and the ruler of Sind, did not give him a place in his own territory, but pointed out Lahor to him as M. Kamran had gone towards Qandahar, and suggested that as such a rich country was unprotected he should go there. The ill-fated Mirza came to Lahor, thinking he had got an open field, and besieged it. Meanwhile M. Kamran arrived near Lahor and beat the drum of superiority. M. Muhammad Zaman was disconcerted, and saw no resource except to return to Gujrat. Driven out and abandoned, he went there. In this year Mirza Haidar Gurgau came from Kashghar vid Badakhshan and joined M. Kamran in Lahor. Next spring Shah Tahmasp came in person to the district of Qandahar, and Khwaja Kilan Beg put all the wardrobes, pantries and other offices in order and sent the keys of the store-houses and of the fort to the Shah, saying that he had no means of holding the fort and was unable to give battle, and that it was inconsistent with loyalty and his duties as a servant to his master that he should come and do homage to the Shah. Hence he thought it proper to set his houses in order and to make them over to his guest and for himself to withdraw. He then went by way of Tatta and Ucc to Lahor. M. Kamran for a month would not allow him to pay his respects, saying “Why could you not have waited, till I arrived?” After various transactions M. Kamran made his preparations and marched against Qandahar for the second time, leaving M. Haidar in charge of Lahor. Before this Shah Tahmasp had put Bidagh Khan Qajar, one of the great officers, in charge of Qandahar