The Book of Akbar 5: March against Bengal.

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(See Vol. V. p. 190.)
[Text, vol. i. p. 155.] In the year 941 Humayun turned his attention to the conquest of the eastern countries, and marched to subdue Bengal. When he arrived at the town of Kinar, near Kalpi, he was informed that Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat had laid siege to the fort of Chitor, and had detached a large force under the command of Tatar Khan, who had very ambitious projects in his head; so in the month of Jumada-l awwal Humayun fell back to resist his enemies.
Tatar Khan pressed his delusive advice upon Sultan Bahadur, and strongly urged that he might be sent towards the Imperial dominions, representing Humayun’s army to be given up to pleasure and indolence. Sultan Bahadur took measures to forward the views of the rebels. Having fitted out Tatar Khan, he sent twenty krors of the old Gujarat coinage, equal to forty of the ordinary Dehli standard, to the fort of Rantambhor, there to be expended by Tatar Khan in raising forces. He sent Sultan ’Alau-d din, father of Tatar Khan, in command of a strong force, against Kalinjar, to increase the rebellious feeling in that neighbourhood. Burhanu-l Mulk Bunyani was sent with a force of Gujaratis through Nagor, to make a demonstration against the Panjab. Under the idea that the Imperial army would now disperse, he divided his own army, and although wise and experienced counsellors advised him to keep his army together, their words had no effect. When Tatar Khan marched on his wild enterprise against Dehli, Sultan Bahadur himself proceeded to invest the fort of Chitor. * * * Tatar Khan, employing the money at his disposal, gathered a force of nearly forty thousand horse, of Afghans and others, with which he advanced and took Bayana. While this was going on, Humayun was engaged in his invasion of the east country; but on receiving the intelligence of it, he hastened back to Agra. Mirzas ’Askari and Hindal and Yadgar Nasir Mirza and * * * were sent with eighteen thousand horse to meet the chief army of insurgents, which was marching against Dehli, for it was deemed expedient to defeat this army first. When the Imperial army approached the insurgents, numbers of the latter deserted every day, until the force dwindled down to three thousand horse. The men collected with so much trouble, and at so great an expense, had neither the heart to advance nor the spirit to fight. At length he (Tatar Khan), washing his hands of life, fought with all the strength he could muster, at Mandrail, and was there killed.