Muntakhab al-lubab 130.4

130.4

Prince Muhammad Mu'izzu-d din and his son A'azzu-d din now arrived. [Great distribution of honours and mansabs.] A letter was received from Prince Muhammad 'Azim, stating that * * he had raised more than twenty thousand horse, and was hastening to reach Agra before Prince Bedar Bakht. News also arrived that Agra had been secured, that Mukhtar Khan had been placed in confinement, and that Baki Khan, the commandant of the fort, put off surrendering the treasure with the excuse that he would wait till His Majesty arrived. Spies and news-writers reported that Baki Khan had written with great humility to Prince Muhammad A'zam, that although the fort and the treasures belonged to both the heirs to the crown, he would surrender them to whichever arrived first. There was not a single person who doubted that, comparing the distance of Peshawar with the difficulties in the way of A'zam Shah, Shah 'Alam would arrive before him.