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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 29.1.4

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 29.1.4

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29.1.4

Khwaja Abu-l-Hasan also drove before him the army in front of him and defeated it. Asaf K., when Baqir K. arrived, showing great activity, finished the affair, and a victory which might be the tughrā (sign manual) of the victories of the age showed its face of purpose from the hidden world. Zabar-dast K., Shir-hamla, Shir-bacha, his son, and the son of Asad K., the architect, and Muhammad Husain, brother of Khwaja Jahan, and a number of the Sayyids of Barha who were in the corps of the black-faced ‘Abdu-llah, having tasted the sweet-flavoured wine of martyrdom, obtained everlasting life. ‘Azizu-llah, grandson of Husain K. (Tukriya), being wounded by a gun-shot, got off safely. Although at this time the desertion of that rejected hypocrite was a secret help, yet it is probable that if he had not performed this detestable action in the crisis of the battle, many of the rebel leaders would have been killed or captured. It chanced that he was known to the common people by the title of La‘natu-llah (God’s curse), and as he had received this name from the hidden world I also called him by it. Hereafter, wherever the expression La‘natu-llah is used it refers to him. Briefly, after the rebels, whose end was evil, took to flight from the field of battle, and turned their faces towards the valley of ruin and could not reassemble, La‘natu-llah, with all the rebels, did not turn his rein till he reached Bi-daulat, who was at a distance of 20 koss.