Tarikh-i Daʾudi 14.3

14.3

they would inflict condign punishment upon Sultan Bahádur. With this intent, having first read the fátiha, the son of 'Adali set forth, with 20,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry, and 500 elephants, to capture Jaunpur. At that time Khan Zaman held the government of that place under Akbar Badshah, and conceiving himself quite unable to cope in the open field with so large a force, he collected all the means necessary for defensive operations, and suffered himself to be invested without opposition. The Afghans, seeing the distress of the Mughals, crossed the river Sye, on which Jaunpur is built, in full force. Hasan Khan Bachgoti and Rukn Khan Lohani leading the advance, made an immediate attack upon Khán Zaman; who, putting his trust solely on Him who could defend him in the hour of need, sallied from the fort, with 4000 cavalry, and fell upon the Afghans. Fortune had so far entirely deserted the latter, that their splendid army of 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry fled before the 4000 Mughals in such a crippled state that not a vestige of them remained. Immense booty fell into the hands of Khan Zaman. The son of 'Adali adopted the life of a recluse after this signal calamity, and no one knew anything further about him.