The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 29.3.8

29.3.8

As the brave ones in the van, having displayed activity, had been mostly wounded, they could not stand the onset of La‘natu-llah, and turned back their rein, and it nearly happened that there was a great disaster. At this time the assistance of God displayed itself, and Safi K. hastened from the centre to the support of the van. Just then La‘natu-llah heard of the killing of Himmat K. and Salih Beg, and, on the appearance of the centre and the attack of Safi K., his courage failed him, and he became a vagabond in the desert of defeat and disaster. Sayyid Dilir K. pursued him for a koss, and made many of the defeated the harvest of the sword of vengeance. Qabil Beg, unfaithful to his salt, with a body of rebels, became captives in the claws of retribution. As La‘natu-llah was not sure about Sar-afraz K., he on the day of battle placed him in chains on an elephant and put him in charge of one of his slaves, with orders that if a defeat occurred he should kill him. In like manner he placed in chains on one of the elephants Bahadur, s. Sultan Ahmad, and gave permission to kill him. When the fight took place the man in charge of Sultan Ahmad’s son put him to death with a dagger, but Sar-afraz K. threw himself down off the elephant. The man in charge of him in that confusion aimed a blow at him in his bewilderment, but it was not effectual. Safi K., finding him in the fight, sent him into the city. La‘natu-llah did not turn back till he arrived at Baroda. As the women of Sharza K.