The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.51

v4.c15.51

Adham Khān sent to court, with the despatches announcing his victory, only a few elephants, and kept most of the spoils and all the women for himself. Māham Anaga’s influence was powerless to restrain Akbar’s resentment of such an insult to his authority, but she wrote to her son to warn him to look to himself and Akbar left Āgra on 27 April. After receiving, on his way, tribute from Surjan Rāi of Ranthambhor and the surrender of Gāgraun he reached Sārangpur on 13 May, to the consternation of Adham Khān, whose mother’s letter had not yet reached him. The delinquent humbled himself before his sovereign, but his prayers and excuses were unavailing until his mother appeared to intercede for him. She arranged a reconciliation and attempted to conceal her son’s crimes by causing to be put to death two of Bāz Bahādur’s most beautiful concubines, whom he had ravished. The crime was discovered but as it was traced to Māham Anaga it went unpunished.