The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 5.4.1

5.4.1

The ferries over the rivers had been stopped because before Khusrau's defeat orders had been given to all the jagirdars and the superintendents of roads and crossings in the subah of the Panjab that as this kind of dispute had arisen they must all be on the alert. Husain Beg wished to transfer the men from the boat with firewood and grass to the other, so that they might convey Khusrau across. At this juncture arrived Kilan, son-in-law of Kamal Chaudhari of Sodharah, and saw a body of men about to cross in the night. He cried out to the boatmen that there was an order from the king Jahangir forbidding unknown men from crossing in the night, and that they must be careful. Owing to the noise and uproar, the people of the neighbourhood gathered together, and Kamal's son-in-law took from the boatmen the pole with which they propel the boat, and which in Hindustani is called balli, and thus made the boat unmanageable. Although money was offered to the boatmen, not one would ferry them over. News went to Abu-l-Qasim Namakin, who was at Gujarat, near the Chenab, that a body of men were wanting to cross the river by night, and he at once came to the ferry in the night with his sons and some horsemen. Things went to such a length that Husain Beg shot arrows at the boatmen, and Kamal's son-in-law also took to shooting arrows from the river-bank.