The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 29.3.5

29.3.5

When he obtained news of the coming out of the loyal servants, drawing in the reins of ruin, he delayed in Baroda till the arrival of help. After the evil-ending criminals collected together at that chief place of mischief, he put forward the foot of error and deviation from the right path, and the loyal party, marching from the Kankariya tank, encamped outside the village of Batoh, near the mausoleum of Qutb ‘Alam. La‘natu-llah traversed a road of three days in two, and arrived at Mahmudabad. As Sayyid Dilir K. had seized the women of Sharza K. and brought them from Baroda to the city, and the women of Sar-afraz K. were also in the city, Safi K. sent a secret message to both of them that if by the guidance of good fortune they would rub off the stain of sin (rebellion) from the tablet of their foreheads, and would enrol themselves among the loyal servants, their position in the present and future worlds would approach salvation; otherwise he would subject their wives and children to all kinds of indignities. Hearing this, La‘natu-llah sent for Sar-afraz K. on some excuse to his house, and imprisoned him. As Sharza K., Himmat K., and Salih Badakhshi were in league together, and had alighted at the same place, he could not get Sharza K. into his hands. Briefly, on the 21st of Sha‘ban, A.H. 1032, June 10, 1623, La‘natu-llah mounted and arrayed the forces tinged with calamity. Those who were loyal also arrayed their forces and prepared for the fight.