The History of Shēr Shāh (Tārīkh-i Shērshāhī) 3.22.3

3.22.3

Sher Shah himself marched from Kachwara towards Kalinjar. When he reached the stage of Shahbandi, news came that 'Alam Khan Miana had created a disturbance in the Doab, and having raised the province of Mirath (Meerut), had ravaged great part of the neighbouring country. Sher Shah turned from Shahbandi, and had gone two marches, when news arrived that 'Alam Khan had been conquered; for Bhagwant, the slave of Khawas Khan, and governor of Sirhind, had slain him near Sirhind. Upon this, Sher Shah turned again towards Kalinjar. The Raja of Kalinjar, Kirat Sing, did not come out to meet him. So he ordered the fort to be invested, and threw up mounds against it, and in a short time the mounds rose so high that they overtopped the fort. The men who were in the streets and houses were exposed, and the Afghans shot them with their arrows and muskets from off the mounds. The cause of this tedious mode of capturing the fort was this. Among the women of Raja Kirat Sing was a Patar slave-girl, that is a dancing-girl. The king had heard exceeding praise of her, and he considered how to get possession of her, for he feared lest if he stormed the fort, the Raja Kirat Sing would certainly make a jauhar, and would burn the girl. On Friday, the 9th of Rabl'u-l awwal, 952 A.H., when one watch and two hours of the day was over, Sher Shah called for his breakfast, and eat with his 'ulama and priests, without whom he never breakfasted. In the midst of breakfast.