The Memoirs of Bābur 933.1.7
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 933.1.7
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933.1.7
Meantime Shaikh Muḥammad _Ghaus̤_ (Helper), a darwīsh-like man, not only very learned but with a large following of students and disciples, sent from inside the fort to say to Raḥīm-dād, "Get yourselves into the fort somehow, for the views of this person (Tātār Khān) have changed, and he has evil in his mind." Hearing this, Raḥīm-dād sent to say to Tātār Khān, "There is danger from the Pagan to those outside; let me bring a few men into the fort and let the rest stay outside." Under insistence, Tātār Khān agreed to this, and Raḥīm-dād went in with rather few men. Said he, "Let our people stay near this Gate," posted them near the Hātī-pul (Elephant-gate) and through that Gate during that same night brought in the whole of his troop. Next day, Tātār Khān, reduced to helplessness, willy-nilly, made over the fort, and set out to come and wait on me in Āgra. A subsistence allowance of 20 _laks_ was assigned to him on Bīānwān _pargana_.[1976] [Sidenote: Fol. 305.] Muḥammad _Zaitūn_ also took the only course open to him by surrendering Dūlpūr and coming to wait on me. A _pargana_ worth a few _laks_ was bestowed on him. Dūlpūr was made a royal domain (_khālṣa_) with Abū'l-fatḥ _Turkmān_[1977] as its military-collector (_shiqdār_).