Muntakhab al-lubab 142.13

142.13

Next day about a thousand of the enemy attacked the garrison which Shams Khan had placed in Rahun, drove them out and occupied it themselves. The enemy then proceeded to plunder the neighbourhood of Lahore, and great alarm was felt in that city and all around. Islam Khan, the Prince's diwan, and naib of the suba of Lahore, in concert with Kazim Khan, the royal diwan, and other officials, after setting in order the fortifications of the city, went out with a large muster of Musulmans and Hindus, and encamped four or five kos from the city, where he busied himself in cutting off the patrolling parties of the enemy. The people in Lahore were safe from danger to life and property, but the outskirts up to the garden of Shalimar, which is situated two kos from the city, were very much ravaged.