The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.7.1

3.7.1

Another of the well-known deeds of Akbar was the victorious expedition against Gujarat, and his rapid march there, at the time when Mirza Ibrahim Husain, Muhammad Husain Mirza, and Shah Mirza revolted from this State and went towards Gujarat, and all the nobles of that province, combining with the turbulent of those parts, besieged the fort of Ahmadabad in which was Mirza 'Aziz Koka with the royal army. His Majesty, in consequence of the distracted state of Jiji Anga, the mother of the last-named Mirza, started for Gujarat with a body of royal troops without delay from the capital of Fathpur. Having covered in the space of nine days the long road which it should take two months to accomplish, sometimes on horseback, sometimes on a camel or in a bullock-cart, he arrived at Sarnal. When, on 5th Jumada-l-awwal, 980 (September 15th, 1572), he reached the neighbourhood of the enemy's camp, he consulted with those who were loyal to him Some said he should make a night attack on the camp. His Majesty, however, said that a night attack was the resort of the faint-hearted and the way of the deceitful, and immediately gave orders to beat the drums and set the horsemen at them. When the river Sabar Mahi (Sabarmati) was reached, he ordered his men to cross it in order. Muhammad Husain Mirza was agitated by the noise of the army of victory, and himself came forward to reconnoitre.