The Book of Akbar 239: March of his Majesty Jahānbanī Jannat-āshiyānī from Badakhshān to Kābul, and the siege thereof.

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When the news of M. Kāmrān’s strife and sedition reached the ears of his Majesty Jahānbanī he resolved, in spite of the extreme cold, and the abundance of ice and snow, to hasten by the defile of Abdara, and to extinguish the flames of sedition. His first step was to send a gracious missive to M. Sulaimān, pardoning his offences and restoring that dismayed desert-wanderer to house and home, and exalting him by conferring on him the territories which his Majesty Gītī-sitānī Firdaus-makānī had bestowed on his father. He confirmed M. Hindāl in possession of Qandūz, Andarāb, Khost, Kahmard and Ghorī and its neighbourhood, and thereupon he, under the guidance of God, and in a most auspicious hour, turned the reins of intent towards Kābul. On account of the protracted continuance of the ice and snow he stayed for some days in Tāliqān. The Uzbegs looked upon his Majesty’s return as a great gain and a grand escape, and one and all abode in peace and tranquillity. In fact the whole of Tūrān was relieved from the dread of the grand army. When the snow had abated his Majesty moved from Tāliqān towards Qandūz. M. Hindāl showed him hospitality there, and in order to gratify the Mīrzā his Majesty took up his quarters near the town in the garden of Khusrū Shāh. After the ‘Īd-i-Qurbān he marched by the pass of Shibartū to the pass of Regak, and halted at Khwāja Seh Yārān