The Book of Akbar 293.1

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service, his words and his deeds did not agree. He extended his foot beyond his carpet and made men Khans and Sultans of his own motion, and gave them standards and drums! Frenzy took possession of him and often from madness or assumed madness and fraud, he gave up his own house to be plundered. There continually appeared in him irregular proceedings which were allied to madness. When these facts repeatedly came to the notice of His Majesty he issued an order to ‘Alī Qulī Khan Shaibānī to send him to Court, and to punish him if he resisted. Just when the madman, having been defeated by Rukn Khan, had come to Budaon, ‘Alī Qulī Khan after having settled the affairs of Mīrat came to Sambal. After arranging matters there he came to Budaon. Though he sent a person to call him, Qambar did not appear, and said “Just as you are a slave of the king, so am I one of the office-bearers of the expedition, and I have got this province by the sword.” At last ‘Alī Qulī Khan took to arms and when Qambar was defeated, he took refuge in the fort of Budaon, and sent a petition to Court. When His Majesty got this account of him, he sent Qasim Makhlas to encompass him with favours and to bring him to kiss the threshold. Before Qasim had reached Budaon, and brought this message of deliverance, ‘Alī Qulī Khan had killed him. The short account of this is that when Qambar strengthened the fort, and the siege was being protracted, ‘Alī Qulī Khan sent to him Muhammad Beg Turkaman and Mulla Ghiāsu-d-dīn.