The Book of Akbar 43.3

43.3

Meanwhile Daud, puffed up with pride, had marched against Jaunpur, having sent on Lodi in advance with a select force and the elephants. He obtained possession of Zamaniya by the capitulation of Muhammad Kasim, the muhr-dar (seal-bearer). Khan-khanan collected the amirs under his command, and sent forward a strong force against Daud, he himself following more leisurely. * * Lodi was greatly elated with the capture of Zamaniya, and he sent 5000 or 6000 men across the Ganges, under the command of Yusuf Muhammad, who had escaped from Gorakpur and joined the Afghans. After he had crossed the Ganges, Mirza Husain Khan and Raja Gajpati attacked and defeated him, inflicting heavy loss. Muhammad Kuli Khan Birlas and other amirs joined the victors, with considerable reinforcements, at Ghazipur. Khan-khanan also arrived with a strong force. Lodi threw up fortifications between the rivers Sah (Sye) and Ganges, and there held his ground. Combats took place every day between the bold spirits of the two armies. But although the Imperial forces maintained a bold attitude, they were inferior in men, elephants, and guns. The Emperor was at the time engaged in the siege of Surat: so Mun’im Khan offered terms of peace; but Lodi haughtily rejected them. The amirs in the royal army were in a depressed condition, and were neither inclined to fight nor retire. But the Imperial good fortune attended them, and Lodi accepted terms of peace and withdrew.