Muntakhab al-lubab 189.2

189.2

Here he was joined by Ghulam 'Ali Khan from the royal army, by Tahawwur 'Ali Khan from Agra, and by others. * * Intelligence arrived that the Emperor Muhammad Shah, being freed from all trouble about Husain 'Ali Khan, was marching to the capital by the Rajput road. Saiyid 'Abdu-llah made his second and third march towards the dargah of Kutbu-d din; but when he heard of the Emperor's march from Agra, he took the road to Faridabad, where he waited in expectation of Saifu-d din 'Ali Khan and others with their Barha soldiers. A very extraordinary fact was that, notwithstanding the large outlay of money, the royal domestics and officials in the train of Sultan Ibrahim rode horses with no saddles. At every stage parties of Barha soldiers, Afghans with their troops, and zamindars on elephants, joined the army of Sultan Ibrahim. Soldiers of Husain 'Ali Khan, who had entered the service of Muhammad Shah and received a month's pay, deserted when they found an opportunity, and came over every day in parties of three or four hundred to join Saiyid 'Abdu-llah. Such was the eagerness to enter the service that one horse (yabu) would receive the dagh (brand) two or three times.