The Book of Akbar 350.10

350.10

Shaikh Gadai, who had an old grudge against him, girded up anew the waist of enmity, and produced before the Khan Khanan a treatise which the Shaikh had composed in Gujrat, and in which he ascribed exaltations to himself and made strange claims, and thereby attracted to himself the minds of the simple. This indisposed the Khan Khanan towards him, and the Shaikh having managed by the help of some men to escape from the Khan Khanan’s ill-treatment, went off to Gwaliar and became a hermit. On 3 Ardibihisht, Divine month, of the 8th year corresponding to Monday, 17th Ramazan 970, 10th May 1563, he went to the abode of annihilation. Of the occurrences of this year there was the sending of Bahadur Khan, the brother of ‘Ali Quli Khan, with a large army for the conquest of Malwa. Let it not be concealed that Malwa, which is a country with a good climate, with many springs and full of cultivation was governed by Shuja‘at Khan, who is generally known by the people of India as Sujawal Khan. After him, his son Baz Bahadur possessed the country. During the tyranny of Salim Khan, Sujawal Khan once visited his court. After some time he got suspicious and went off to Malwa without taking leave. Salim Khan went after him with a large army in order to seize Sujawal Khan, who took refuge with the Rajah of Dongarpur. Salim Khan sent men from Malwa to reassure him, and by dint of promises got him to come to him.