The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 30.4

30.4

now sent him again as his representative to ‘Adil Khan, and the leading men of the Deccan, nolentes volentes, looking to the necessities of the time and the upshot of affairs, were contented and professed loyalty and desire for service. The rebel ‘Ambar sent one of his confidential men of the name of ‘Ali Shir, and displayed great humility. He (‘Ambar) wrote in the capacity of a servant to Mahabat K., and engaged that he (‘Ambar) should come to Dewalgaon and wait upon Mahabat. He would make his eldest son a servant of the State, and keep him in the service of my auspicious son. About this time there arrived a letter from Qazi ‘Abdu-l-‘Aziz that ‘Adil K. from the bottom of his heart had elected for service and loyalty, and agreed that he would send Mulla Muhammad Lari, who was his principal agent and minister, and whom both in spoken and written messages he called Mulla Baba, with 5,000 horse, that he might remain continually on duty, and they might know that other troops would follow (?). Urgent farmans had been sent that my son should proceed to Allahabad and Behar in order to overthrow Bi-daulat. At this time news arrived that notwithstanding the rainy season and the violence of the rain, that son, on the 6th Farwardin had marched out of Burhanpur with the army of fortune, and had taken up his quarters in Lal Bagh, and that Mahabat K.