The History of Shāhjahān (ʿInāyat Khān) 9.2

9.2

He also appointed some of the household troops, and a number of matchlockmen belonging to the Kandahar levies, to garrison the fortifications of Daulatabad and Mandavi, and having consigned the superintendence of them to Mirak Husain, bakhshi of Kandahar, came himself from the citadel to the former of these two forts, for the purpose of looking after the intrenchments. With a wanton disregard to the dictates of prudence, however, he did not attend to the defence of the towers, that Kalich Khan, in the days of his administration, had constructed expressly for such an occasion, on the top of the hill of Chihal-Zinah (forty steps), whence guns and matchlocks could be fired with effect into the forts of Daulatabad and Mandavi. The Kazalbashis, therefore, seeing those towers devoid of protection, despatched a number of matchlockmen to take post in them, and open a destructive fire. They also laid out intrenchments in two different quarters. * * * At length a number of the garrison, from want of spirit, lost the little courage they possessed, and Shadi Uzbek having entered into a conspiracy with the Kazalbashis, seduced Kipchak Khan from his duty.