The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 13.4.4

13.4.4

The Khan A'zam had himself prayed that the illustrious prince should be appointed to the campaign against the Rana, yet, notwithstanding all kinds of encouragement and gratification on the part of my son (Shah Jahan), he would not apply himself to the task, but proceeded to act in his own unworthy manner. When this was heard by me, I sent Ibrahim Husain, who was one of my most trusty attendants, to him, and sent affectionate messages to him to say that when he was at Burhanpur he had daily begged this duty of me, as he considered it equivalent to the happiness of both worlds, and had said in meetings and assemblies that if he should be killed in this enterprise he would be a martyr, and if he prevailed, a ghazi. I had given him whatever support and assistance of artillery he had asked for. After this he had written that without the movement of the royal standards to those regions the completion of the affair was not free of difficulty. By his counsel I had come to Ajmir, and this neighbourhood had been thus honoured and dignified. Now that he had himself prayed for the prince, and everything had been carried out according to his counsel, why did he withdraw his foot from the field of battle and enter the place of disagreement? To Baba Khurram, from whom up till now I had never parted, and whom I sent in pure reliance on his (Khan A'zam's) knowledge of affairs, he should show loyalty and approved good-will, and never be neglectful day or night of his duty to my son.