The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 29.1.1

29.1.1

On the eve of Tuesday, the 20th of Jumada-l-awwal, a.h. 1032 (March 10, 1623), the sun that lights the world entered his house of honour in Aries, and the eighteenth year from the beginning of my reign commenced auspiciously and happily. On this day I heard that Bi-daulat, having gone to the neighbourhood of Mathura, had encamped the army tainted with ruin in the pargana of Shahpur, and reviewed 27,000 cavalry. It is hoped that they will soon be subdued and miserable. Raja Jay Singh, grandson of Raja Man Singh, came from his native country, and had the good fortune to kiss my stirrup. I dignified Raja Bir Singh Deo, than whom in the Rajput caste there is no greater Amir, with the title of Maharaja, and promoted his son Jograj to the mansab of 2,000 with 1,000 horse. Sayyid Bahwa was presented with an elephant. As it was reported to me that Bi-daulat was coming by the bank of the Jumna, the march of the victorious army in that direction was also decided on. The array of the army that resembled the waves of the sea was divided into the van, the right and left wings, the altmish, the tarah (reserve), the chandawul (rear), etc., and arranged in a manner suitable to the circumstances and according to the locality. Close upon this came the news that Bi-daulat, with the wretch Khan-khanan, had turned his reins from the right road and gone towards the pargana Kotila, 20 koss towards the left, along with the brahman Sundar, who was his guide to the desert of error, with Darab, s.