One stage from Talwandí, Husain Khán addressed a letter to Husain Kulí Khán, saying that he had come four hundred kos by forced marches, and begging for one day's delay, so that he might join him, and share in the victory to be won. Husain Kulí Khán said, “Very well,” and sent the messenger back. On the same day he hastened on to the town of Túlamba, four kos from Multán, and attacked the Mirzá, who was out hunting, and quite unaware of his approach. Some of the Mirzá's men were preparing to march, and others had dispersed, and were not in condition to fight. Mas'úd Husain Mirzá, younger brother of Mirzá Ibráhím Husain, took the initiative, and attacked the forces of Husain Kulí Khán; but his horse stumbled and fell upon the broken ground, and he was taken prisoner. When Mirzá Ibráhím Husain returned from hunting, all chance was gone; and although he fought well, and made several charges, he was unable to gain any success; so he turned his reins and fled.
The day after the victory Husain Khán arrived at Túlamba, with eighty or ninety men, and drums beating. Husain Kulí Khán showed him the battle-field, and told him of each man's exploits. Husain Khán then said, “As the enemy has escaped alive, you must pursue him and take him prisoner, for the business is not yet completed.” Husain Kulí Khán replied that he had come from Nagarkot by forced marches, that his forces had suffered many hardships in that mountainous country, and were not in condition. A complete victory had been secured, and now there was an opportunity for other friends.
Husain Khán now hoped that his turn was come, and that the hardships and the forced march of five hundred kos had opened a way for him, so he took his leave, and pressed forward. Some men, who were worn out with fatigue, he sent to Lahore with the elephants and drums. With a small party of men he took up the pursuit of the Mirzá. There was but a short distance between him and the unfortunate Mirzá, when one night the Mirzá and about four hundred horsemen halted on the banks of the Biyáh and Sutlej, where the rivers unite. The jhíls, who are a low class of Multán peasants, having collected together, made a night attack upon him, and assailed him with arrows. The Mirzá, with a party of men, some wounded and some disabled, did what they could to beat off their assailants; but the jhíls came on successfully. At length an arrow, guided by fate, struck the Mirzá at the back of his head, and came out through his throat. Unable otherwise to help himself, he changed his clothes, and his men left him. They fled, sorely distressed, in every direction. But wherever they went, they were marks for the arrows of death, and met their fate. One or two old slaves of Mirzá Ibráhím, having dressed him in the garments of a kalandar, were desirous of getting him out of the way of danger. His helplessness was so great that they took him for refuge to the dwelling of a darwesh named Shaikh Zakariya. Outwardly the Shaikh applied ointment to his wounds, but privately he sent information to Sa'íd Khán at Multán. The Khán sent a slave named Daulat Khán to bring in the Mirzá a prisoner. Sa'íd Khán wrote a despatch, and sent it to the Emperor as he was coming to Ajmír on his return from Gujarát.
Husain Khán, when he heard of the capture of the Mirzá, hastened to Multán, and saw Sa'íd Khán. He made a difficulty about seeing the Mirzá, and said: “If when I see him, I salute him, it will be inconsistent with my duty to the Emperor, and if I do not salute him, it will be uncourteous, and the Mirzá will say to himself—‘See this uncircumcised fellow, who, when he received quarter at the siege of Satwás, made obeisances without end, and now that evil days are fallen upon me treats me cavalierly.’” The Mirzá heard these ceremonious words of his, and said “Come and see me, and without obeisance, for I waive it.” Notwithstanding he made his bow, and saw him. The Mirzá, with an anxious look, said, “I had no intention of rebellion and disturbance. When the matter took a serious turn, I took my own course, and threw myself into a foreign country. But they would not allow me to stay there. If it was my fate that this defeat should fall upon me, would to God that I had received it at your hands, that it might have been the cause of the advancement of you, who are my co-religionist, and not from Husain Kulí Khán, who is alien in religion and sect!” Husain Khán then returned to Kánt and Gola, and soon afterwards he heard that the Mirzá had died in prison.
Husain Khán proceeded from Kánt and Gola to Court. Husain Kulí Khán also came to Fathpúr from the Panjáb, bringing Mas'úd Husain Mirzá, with his eyes fastened up, and a number of the Mirzá's men as prisoners. They were nearly three hundred persons, and they were brought before the Emperor, with skins of asses, hogs, and dogs cast over them, some to be put to death with divers tortures, and some to be set at liberty. * * Sa'íd Khán also sent the head of Mirzá Ibráhím Husain from Multán, having had it cut off for the purpose after his death.]
[Text, vol. ii. p. 163.] [In this year (980) died Sulaimán Kirání, ruler of Bengal, who had assumed the title of Hazrat-i 'ala. He had conquered that mine of infidelity, the city of Katak and Banáras,* and had made Jagannáth a home of Islám. His authority extended from Kámrú (Kámrúp) to Orissa. His son Báyazíd succeeded him; but in the course of five or six months, the Afgháns put him to death, and his brother Dáúd bin Sulaimán attained the sovereignty.]
[Text, vol. ii. p. 173.] About this time (Zí-l hijja, 981 A.H.), Shaikh Abú-l Fazl, son of Shaikh Mubárak Nágorí, the star of whose knowledge and wisdom was brilliant, came to Court, and received many marks of distinction.
[Text, vol. ii. p. 173.] In 981 fine spacious palaces were built on the road to Ajmír. His Majesty's devotion induced him every year to go on a pilgrimage to that city. So directions were given for building a palace at every stage between Ágra and Ajmír, and for erecting a pillar and sinking a well at every kos. Some hundreds of thousands of stags' horns, which had been killed in the course of His Majesty's life, were placed upon the pillars as a memorial for the world.* Would that, instead of these, gardens or saráís had been formed!
[Text, vol. ii. p. 174.] [Dáúd was now at Hájípúr, and at the instance of Katlú Khán, governor of Jagannáth, he threw into prison his amíru-l umará Lodí, who had been ruler of Orissa, but who had since taken a hostile course, and had set himself up in opposition in the fort of Rohtás. He got Lodí into his power by holding out the bribe of an elephant. They tell the story that one day Dáúd went out hunting with a small escort, and that Lodí, with ten thousand horsemen of Sulaimán's, formed the design of putting down Dáúd. But Dáúd went back to the city, assembled his forces, and scattered Lodí's followers. By his crafty management, he got Lodí into his power, and appropriated all that he possessed. Lodí, knowing his death to be certain, did not withhold his advice from Dáúd. He said, “Although I know that you will be very sorry after my death, and that you will derive no benefit from it, still I will give you one counsel, which if you act upon you will prove victorious. My advice is, that you place no reliance upon that peace which I effected not long ago by means of two lacs of rupees. The Mughals will never let you alone for this trifling sum. Be beforehand with them, and make war with them immediately, for there is nothing like the first blow.” Dáúd thought he had an evil design in what he said, and, proud of the hollow peace which he had made with Khán-khánán, but which was no better than a shadow, he put the devoted Lodí to death. Thus he struck his own foot with the axe, and at the same time uprooted the plant of his prosperity with the spade of calamity.]