Ahwal-i Dina Beg Khan 2.2

2.2

Ghaziu-d din, assembling a body of men, sat watching the opportunity of vengeance, but in vain. Adina Beg Khdn, being sorely pressed by the army of the Abdalis, invited Malhar, Raghu and other Mahratta chiefs from the Dakhin, gave them fifty lacs of rupees, and proceeded to attack the officers of the Abdali. He first overcame the Faujdar of Sirhind, whose name was 'Abdu-s Samad Khdn, and who was stationed in that city with a body of 20,000 Rohillas, horse and foot. After subjugating the whole of that district, Adina Beg proceeded to Lahore. When he reached that city, Jahan Khan, with Prince Timur, pitched his tents at Kachchi-sarai, and having intrenched himself, prepared for action. Adina Beg Khdn joined his forces with those of the Mahrattas, and Jahan Khdn, having sustained a defeat, fled towards Peshawar with two hundred horse, leaving all his treasure and property to be plundered by the enemy's army. Adina Beg Khdn, on the achievement of this unexpected victory, ordered the happy occasion to be celebrated by beat of drums. He dismissed the Mahratta army to Dehli, and himself proceeded to Batala, where he fixed his head-quarters. He then turned his attention to the appointment of governors for the provinces of Multan, Thatta, and Lahore. Soon after this he died a natural death, on the 11th of Muharram, in the fifth year of 'Alamgir's reign, and the province of Lahore again came into the possession of the Sikhs.