The Book of Akbar 80.2
Akbar-náma, of Shaikh Abu-l Fazl (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 80.2
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80.2
This compelled them to take flight, and many of their men were drowned. They were defeated on all sides, except in the battery of Saiyid Husain, thdndddr of Dacca, who was taken prisoner. ’Isa now awoke from his dream of ignorance, and opened communications through the medium of this prisoner. Shahbaz Khan received his overtures favourably, and ’Isa consented to submit to the supremacy of the Emperor, and to acknowledge himself a servant. The port of Sunargaon was to receive an Imperial darogha. Ma’sum was to be sent on the pilgrimage to Mecca, and tribute was to be transmitted to the Emperor. He won the hearts of the amirs by his munificent presents, and the royal army retired.