Muntakhab al-lubab 142.7

142.7

After a large booty of money, jewels, and goods of Sarangpur had fallen into the hands of the enemy, they took measures to secure the surrounding country, and they sent severe orders to Jalal Khan, Faujdar of Jalalabad, who had founded the town and built the fort, and was famed for his boldness and valour throughout the country. When the letter of the accursed wretches reached him, he ordered the bearers to be exposed to derision and turned out of the place. He set his defences in order, collected materials of war, and did his best to protect the name and honour of those around him, and to get together a force sufficient to oppose the infidels. Intelligence was brought in that the enemy were only three or four kos distant, and they had attacked and surrounded two villages dependent on Jalalabad, the forts and houses of which were full of property belonging to merchants.