Tadhkirah i Anand-Ram “Mukhlish” 3.7

3.7

But just at this time a report spread through the city of the death of Amiru-l umara and the capture of Burhanu-l Mulk. Many were the false reports circulated, which there is no need to record here, and such was the state of the town that, but for the vigilance of Kotwal Haji Fulad Khan, it must have been plundered, and the Persian army would have found the work done. The kotwal, no ordinary man, was at his post day and night; his exertions were unceasing, and, wherever there was an appearance of sedition, he seized and punished the guilty parties. The roads were infested with malefactors, and there was safety for none. Having received certain tidings of the Persians having formed a circle around the royal army, and rendered ingress to the camp impossible, the author was compelled to relinquish his design of proceeding thither. He therefore turned his attention to his means of defence. Sentries were placed, and the darogha and the writer himself patrolled the bazars at night to collect news. A supply of lead, powder, and rockets was laid in, and distributed among the people of the quarter, who began to take heart. Thus the nights were spent in watching, and the days in the society of friends. This state of things continued until the arrival of Burhanu-l Mulk Bahadur and Tahmasp Khan Jalair, the latter the representative of the Persian Shah.