The History of Shēr Shāh (Tārīkh-i Shērshāhī) 3.4.6

3.4.6

When Farid understood that Daulat Khan took an interest in his affairs, he wrote saying, "Mian Khan is old, and his senses are failing him, and he is spell-bound and infatuated with a Hindu slave-girl. Whatever she tells him he does, and has permitted her to manage his districts, and she has trampled on all his relatives, and disgusted his soldiery and the people he rules. Both parganas are falling to ruin from the folly of this slave-woman. If the king will confer on me the two parganas, I and my brother will, with 500 horse, serve him in any place or way he orders, in addition to the service Mian Hasan now renders. When Daulat Khan heard his request, he encouraged him in every possible way, and said, "Be of good heart, for I will tell the king the truth about Mian Hasan, and will get the parganas taken from your father and given to you."