The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 10.2.11

10.2.11

The disposal of Khusru still remained unsettled. As the vicinity of Agra was a hot-bed of disaffection, I was desirous that it should be cleared of dangerous persons, lest these pretensions of Khusru should be backed up and kept alive. So I directed my son Parwez to leave several sardars to carry on the campaign against the Rana, and to proceed himself with Asaf Khan and 200 others to Agra, and there to undertake the control and protection of the city. But before they arrived there, Khusru’s attempt had been crushed to the satisfaction of my friends, so I directed Parwez to come and meet me. On the 9th Muharram I entered Lahore. My friends and well-wishers advised me to return to Agra, because Gujarat, the Dakhin, and Bengal were all in a disordered state. But this advice did not approve itself to me, because I had learnt from the letters of Shah Beg Khan, the ruler of Kandahar, sundry facts all tending to show that the amirs of the frontier of the Kazilbashes had designs upon Kandahar. * * Intelligence reached me at Lahore, that the Kazilbashes had inclosed the fort of Kandahar on three sides, and it was evident that further delay would be dangerous ; so I sent a force thither under the command of Ghazi Beg Khan and * * *. With a view to prevent the threatened danger, I determined to proceed to Kabul, and to postpone my proposed excursion round about Lahore.]