The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 78.1

78.1

[The eighteenth year of my reign commenced on 20th Jumada-l awwal, 1032 H. (10th March, 1623). On this day intelligence was brought that the rebel had advanced near to Mathura, and had encamped in the pargana of Shahpur. * * The next intelligence was that he had deviated from the direct course, and had gone twenty kos to the left. Sundar Rai, who was the leader in this rebellion, Darab son of Khan-khanan, and many other amirs, had been sent on with the army against me. The command was nominally held by Darab, but Sundar was the real commander, and the prop of the revolt. They encamped near Biluchpur. I sent forward 25,000 horse under Asaf Khan, and he was opposed by Kasim Khan and others. * * The Almighty has at all times and in all places been gracious unto me ; so when ’Abdu-lla Khan went over to the enemy with 10,000 men under his command, and a great disaster menaced my army, a bullet directed by fate killed Sundar, and his fall made the rebels waver. Khwaja Abu-l Hasan drove back the force opposed to him, Asaf Khan also brought up his division opportunely, and we achieved a great victory. * * When the rebel passed near Amber, the birth-place and abode of Raja Man Singh, he sent a party of men to plunder it, and lay it waste. * * I also learnt that he had sent Jagat Singh, son of Raja Basu, to stir up disturbances in his native land in the Panjab. * *