Muntakhab al-lubab 62: War with Bijápur.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 236.] In the sixteenth year of the reign, corresponding to 1083 A.H. (1673 A.D.), Khan-Jahan fought a battle with Bahlol, the Bijápur general, near the town of Malkher, about four stages from Bijapur. Islam Khan Rumi fought splendidly, and the Imperial army was worsting the enemy in all directions, when an explosion of gunpowder took place, which so frightened the elephant of Islam Khan that the driver lost all control of it, and the animal carried off his rider to the lines of the enemy, where Islám Khán was dragged off the elephant and killed. A good deal of the baggage of the Imperial army was plundered, and many men were slain in the battle. * * Aurangzeb received the news of the defeat of Diler Khán and the death of Islam Khan in the Dakhin, while he was at Hasan Abdal on his march against the Afghans, in the beginning of the seventeenth year of his reign, and he was obliged to defer the punishment of the Dakhinis for the time. * * The Emperor returned from Hasan Abdal to the capital at the end of the eighteenth or nineteenth year of his reign.