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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 5.3.4

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 5.3.4

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5.3.4

Then, alighting from his horse, he placed his head at my feet and professed every kind of humility and submission, and said that there could be no higher or more lofty fortune than this. In this command Shaikh Farid behaved with sincerity and devotion. The Sayyids of Barha, who are of the brave ones of the age, and who have held this place in every fight in which they have been, formed the van. Saif Khan, son of Sayyid Mahmud Khan Barha, the head of the tribe, had shown great bravery and had received seventeen wounds. Sayyid Jalal, also of the brethren of this band, received an arrow in his temple and died a few days later. At the time when the Sayyids of Barha, who were not more than fifty or sixty in number, having received wounds from 1,500 Badakhshi horsemen, had been cut to pieces, Sayyid Kamal, who, with his brothers, had been appointed to support the van, came up on the flank and fought with wondrous bravery and manliness. After that the men of the right wing raised the cry of Padshah salamat ("Long live the King") and charged, and the rebels hearing the words, gave up and scattered abroad to various hiding-places. About 400 Aimaqs became crushed on the plain of anger and overcome by the victorious army. Khusrau's box of jewels and precious things which he had always with him, fell into our hands.