Mír Mushrif, who was renowned for his bravery and personal strength, went out to battle clad in armour. Seated in a splendid howda, and drawing his bowstring to his ear, he urged his elephant on against that of Dáúd Khán. As Dáúd Khán had come into the field without armour, he cried out to Mír Mushrif, “Why do you cover up your face like a woman? Put off your armour that I may see your person!” Saying this he dis­charged an arrow at him, which wounded him in the throat. Mír Mushrif pulled out the arrow with great pain, and fell fainting in his howda. According to the statements of several elephant-drivers, Dáúd Khán then tried to fasten the two elephants together, and, in so doing, struck Mír Mushrif three or four blows on the back and side with the elephant-goad. Mír Mushrif's driver managed to get his elephant away from that of Dáúd Khán; but Amíru-l umará's men, who had seen the blows, thought Mír Mushrif was killed; so great alarm spread through their ranks, and a total rout seemed about to fall upon the army. Some indeed withdrew from the fight, leaving their leaders still holding their ground and fighting bravely. At this critical moment a musket-ball struck Dáúd Khán and killed him. The elephant-driver and Dáúd's companions, who had escaped the sword, finding that he was dead, turned away the elephant from the field. The bloody elephant was brought back, and the corpse of Dáúd was taken out and tied to its tail, and in that state it was brought to the city.

Nímá Sindhiá and the other Mahratta chiefs who had joined Amíru-l umará looked on the battle from a distance with an eye to plundering the vanquished party. In the height of the battle they withdrew, and prepared to flee; but they came to offer their congratulations to Amíru-l umará on his victory. Their men fell to plundering the baggage and property of Dáúd Khán's army; but all the treasure, elephants, horses, and warlike stores fell into the hands of Amíru-l umará. Out of all this he sent some elephants to the Emperor after the lapse of two years.

Dáúd Khán was said to be impotent; but when he was Súbadár of Ahmadábád, a daughter of one of the zamíndárs was brought, and, according to the custom of the country, was pre­sented to the ruler as tribute. He converted her to Islám, and married her. She became pregnant by him, and when he went forth to battle, she was seven months gone with child. On his departure, she, in her pride, took the dagger from his belt, and kept it carefully by her. When she heard of his death, she ripped open her belly, brought forth the child alive, and then departed with her husband to the next world. But this story has not been authenticated.

When the result of the battle and the death of Dáúd Khán was reported to Farrukh Siyar, his countenance seemed clouded with sorrow, and he said to Kutbu-l Mulk Saiyid 'Abdu-llah that it was a pity such a renowned and noble chief had been killed. Kutbu-l Mulk replied, “If my brother had been slain by the hands of the Afghán, it would have given Your Majesty satisfaction.”

[vol. ii. p. 755.] After Dáúd Paní became Súbadár of Ahmad-ábád in Gujarát, in the second year of the reign, on the night when the holí of the Hindús is burnt, a certain Hindú, between whose house and the house of some Musulmáns there was a court-yard common to both houses, prepared to burn the holí in front of his house; but the Musulmáns prevented him. The Hindú went to Dáúd Khán, who frequently favoured the infidels, and argued that he had a right to do as he liked in his own house. After a good deal of talk and importunity, the right to burn the holí was allowed. Next day a Musulmán, who dwelt opposite the house, desiring to give an entertainment in honour of the Prophet, brought a cow and slaughtered it there, on the ground that it was his own house. All the Hindús of the quarter assembled in a mob round the Musulmáns, and the Musulmáns, being unable to resist, went into their houses and hid them­selves.

The Hindús grew so bold and violent that they seized a lad of fourteen or fifteen years old, the son of a cow-butcher, and, according to the statement of one of the citizens who fell into their hands, they dragged the boy off and slaughtered him. The report and sight of this outrage drew the Musul-máns together from all quarters; the cry for a general dis­turbance was raised, and they were ready to do battle with the Hindús. A great concourse assembled, and among them several thousand Afgháns, in the service of Dáúd Khán, eager to defend the honour of Islám, without caring to please their master. The Afgháns of the suburbs and the inhabitants of the city assembled together in a great crowd, and went off with one accord to the house of the kází. The kází seeing the mob, hearing the disturbance, and thinking of the partiality of the Súbadár, shut his door upon the people.

Report says that upon a hint of the kází as to the conduct and partiality of Dáúd Khán towards the Hindús, the Musulmáns set fire to the door of the kází's house, and began to burn the shops in the chauk and the houses of the Hindús. In the riot many shops were destroyed. They then went off with the intention of burning the house of Kapúr Chand, a jeweller, and an active infidel, who took a leading part in this business, and was an acquaintance of Dáúd Khán. He got notice of their intention, and, with a number of matchlockmen whom he collected, he shut the gate of his ward of the town and showed fight. Numbers of Musulmáns and Hindús were killed. The riot reached such a pitch that for three or four days all business and work in Ahmadábád was suspended. A large number of the leaders on both sides resolved to appeal to the Emperor. Dáúd Khán placed his own seal on the petition of Kapúr Chand, and the kází and other officials having certified to the violence of the Musulmáns, it was sent to Dehlí. Shaikh 'Abdu-l azíz [and other Musulmáns] went in person to Court. [Further religious contention and violence at Dehlí.]

[Text, vol. ii. p. 761.] The violence [of the Sikhs] passed all bounds. The injuries and indignities they inflicted on Musul-máns, and the destruction of mosques and tombs, were looked upon by them as righteous meritorious acts. They had built a fort at Gurdáspúr in the Panjáb, ten or twelve days' journey from Dehlí, and extended its limits so that fifty or sixty thousand horse and foot could find protection. They strengthened the towers and walls of the place, took possession of all the cultivated land around, and ravaged the country from Láhore to Sihrind, otherwise called Sirhind. 'Abdu-s Samad Khán Diler Jang was appointed Súbadár of Láhore, and was sent thither with ^{* *} and with a select army and artillery. 'Abdu-s Samad engaged the vast army of the Gurú near his fort. The infidels fought so fiercely that the army of Islám was nearly over­powered; and they over and over again showed the greatest daring. Great numbers were killed on both sides; but Mughal valour at length prevailed, and the infidels were defeated and driven to their stronghold.

The infidels on several occasions showed the greatest boldness and daring, and made nocturnal attacks upon the Imperial forces. 'Abdu-s Samad Diler Jang, while lying in front of their poor fortress,* was obliged to throw up an intrenchment for the defence of his force. He raised batteries, and pushed forward his ap­proaches. The siege lasted a long time, and the enemy exhibited great courage and daring. They frequently made sallies into the trenches, and killed many of the besiegers. To relate all the struggles and exertions of 'Abdu-s Samad and his companions in arms would exceed our bounds. Suffice it to say that the Royal army in course of time succeeded in cutting off from the enemy his supplies of corn and fodder, and the stores in the fort were exhausted. [Great straits and sufferings of the besieged.]