The History of Fīrūz Shāh (ʿAfīf) 41: Fifth Mukaddama. — Retreat of Fíroz Sháh from Thatta to Gujarát.

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[Full account of what passed at the council, and of the determination to retreat into Gujarát to recruit, and return in the following year, when the crops would be ripe and grain plentiful.] The Sultán then gave orders for the march, which spread universal joy throughout the army. * * The Khan-i 'azam (Zafar Khan), who had under his command a large force of Bengalis, had charge of the rear. When the enemy found that the Sultan had retreated, with all his forces and baggage (as they supposed), towards Dehli, they pursued. The first day the royal army made a march of ten kos, and the enemy coming up, a sharp encounter took place between them and Zafar Khan, in which they were repulsed. The heads of several Thatta men were cut off and sent to the Sultan. All the fleet of boats fell into the hands of the enemy, but the baggage was carried off with the army to Gujarat.