Tarikh-i Daʾudi 14.5

14.5

He then proceeded to attack Jaunpur with his Afghans, and despatched Lodi before him with an innumerable force. Lodi first attacked Zamania, which had been built by Khan Zaman. It was reduced to a desert, and no signs of cultivation remained. Mun'im Khan quitted Jaunpur, and when he saw that the Afghan army was large, and the Mughals few in number, he opened, by way of augury, the Diwan of Khwaja Hafiz, who is called the Lisanu-l Ghaib, or "tongue of the inscrutable," and found this verse: "O King, amongst the beautiful, render justice to the grief of my loneliness, My heart is sorely distressed through your absence, it is time that you should return." Mun'im Khan sent this couplet, together with an account of what had occurred, to King Akbar, who despatched an immense army to Mun'im Khan's assistance, and also followed it in person. Daud Shah arrived in Mungir from Bengal, and there he allowed unjustifiable suspicions to enter his head. Many persons endeavoured to impress on him that Lodi would certainly try to make Táj, the nephew of Hazrat 'Alí, king, because Lodi had been long attached to that family, and had, moreover, betrothed his own daughter to him. Dáni Sháh caused his own cousin Yusuf to be slain at Mungír, and became very suspicious of Lodi. When Lodi perceived the evil disposition of Ddud, he made peace with Mun'im Khan, and expressed a wish to be taken to King Akbar.