The Book of Akbar 53.3

53.3

When he had thus restored order, the officers of Mun’im Khan were moved with envy against him, and sent him away. As he had no jagir on which to support his followers, he retired with Khudadad Birlas and Khwaja Shamsu-d din to Jundh and Sahsaram. As he was on his way thither, intelligence reached him that those two places had been occupied by forces from Rohtas. So he continued his march, and by valour and good management cleared those two places of the enemy. He had no sooner done this than new disturbances broke out in Bihar. Disregarding the ungrateful behaviour of the Bihar officials, he once more intervened, and rendered good service. The circumstances of the case were these. Mun’im Khan Khan-khanan had left ’Arab Bahadur in Mahir, which is a fort between Bihar and Jharkand. Ghazi and Haji, two brothers, came with a party of turbulent Afghans from Jharkand, and seized the place. Many of the garrison were put to the sword; but ’Arab Bahadur made his escape, and, hastening to the amirs of the province, they gathered their forces, and marched to repress this outbreak. The Afghans retired to the fastnesses of the mountains and defied them. The amirs went after them, and at length found themselves unable either to advance or retire. A party of nearly 300 Rajputs, in the service of Raja Bhagwant Das, bravely advanced, but were defeated, and lost nearly 100 of their number. They now sent to solicit aid from Muzaffar Khan, who soon joined them with his victorious followers.