The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 12.2.8

12.2.8

On the 15th I encamped at Amardi, a most extraordinary green plain, in which you cannot see a mound or hillock of any kind. At this place and in the neighbourhood there are seven or eight thousand houses of Khaturs and Dilazaks, who practise every kind of turbulence, oppression, and highway robbery. I gave orders that the sarkar of Attak, as well as this tract of country, should be made over to Zafar Khan, the son of Zain Khan Koka, and I gave him directions, that before the return of the royal camp from Kabul, he should march off the whole of the Dilazaks towards Lahore, and should seize the chiefs of the Khaturs, and keep them in prison and fetters. On Monday, the 17th, I encamped near the fort of Attak, on the banks of the river Nilab, after making one march intermediately. At this place I promoted Mahabat Khan to the rank of 2500. This fort, which is very strong, was constructed under the direction and superintendence of Khwaja Shamsu-d din Khwafi by order of my father. In these days the Nilab was very full, insomuch that the bridge consisted of eighteen boats, over which people passed with great ease and security. The Amiru-l Umara was so weak and sick, that I left him at Attak, and as the country around Kabul was not able to subsist so large a camp as accompanied me, I ordered the bakhshis to allow no one to cross the river except my own friends and household ; the main camp being ordered to wait at Attak till my return.