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detached from Badakhshan. M. Kamran a second time led his army thither and a battle was fought near Andarab. M. Sulaiman was defeated and took refuge in Fort Zafar. M. Kamran followed him and besieged the fort. He stopped the coming of supplies and many of the inhabitants of Badakhshan came and did homage to him. As M. Sulaiman despaired of his soldiers, who were only eye-servers (casm-i-ictibar daght) and also as the fort was in difficulties from want of supplies, he was obliged to submit. M. Kamran left Qasim Birlas, Mirza 'Abdu-l-lah and many others of his partisans under the charge of the said Birlas in Badakhshan, and himself went back (to Kabul). Khwaja Husam of Merv found the date of this occurrence in the words "Jum'a hafdahum-i-mah-i-Jumada's-sani" (Friday, Jumada II, 17th, 948 = October 8th, 1546). He kept M. Sulaiman and his son M. Ibrahim in confinement. When he returned, he put the city into fete for a month, and spent his days in insouciance. He remembered not his God, nor did he deal justice to the oppressed. Till at length the fortune-star of his Majesty Jahanbani's gracious heaven ascended, and coming with dominion and auspiciousness, lodged his punishment in his bosom, as will be related hereafter.