The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c13.46.3

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Sickness breaking out in the camp, Humāyūn left it to return to Bhakkar, and Hindāl in disgust abandoned his task and left for Qandahār, sending messages to Yādgār Mīrzā to invite him to follow. Once more Humāyūn's vacillation had brought him into serious trouble and to secure Yādgār Mīrzā's adherence he made promises of considerable grants to be conferred when he regained power. Realising too late that Shāh Husain had been merely playing with him, he decided to attack Shāh Husain's capital city Tatta near the mouth of the Indus, and set out on this enterprise. But on the way he was again persuaded to turn aside and besiege Sehwān, a hopeless task in view of the defensive plans which had been carried out. As he entered on this futile operation Shāh Husain, judging that the time had arrived for a more active policy, collected a fleet of boats and advanced up the river. Humāyūn's unwieldy force, swollen by fugitives of his own race who had fled from the Afghān supremacy in Hindūstān, was driven to great extremities by the lack of food. An appeal made to Hindāl for assistance was disregarded. Yādgār Mīrzā, who was also directed to attack Shāh Husain, had already been seduced by that astute monarch, and had received favourably a suggestion that he should himself become emperor by conquering Gujarāt with help from Sind and might have the reversion of Sind itself by marrying Shāh Husain's daughter.