[Text, vol. iii. p. 109.] Whilst Khán-khánán was absent on the campaign against Dáúd in Katak, Kálá Pahár, Babúí Mangalí, and a number of disaffected Afgháns, took arms and attacked the Káksháls. These made but a faint resistance, and were dis­honoured by their pusillanimity. The Afgháns occupied the territory of Ghorá-ghát, and pursued the Káksháls, not allowing them to draw rein until they reached Tánda. The Khán-khánán returned in haste, and, without entering Tánda, proceeded at once against the enemy. He found the turbulent force posted on the other side of the Ganges. Not far off the river divides into two branches. Over one of these he cast a bridge, and was preparing to do so over the other, when the enemy took the alarm and fled. Khán-khánán then proceeded to Málda, and sent a detachment under Majnún Khán to Ghorá-ghát, which quickly brought the place again under the Imperial authority.

[Text, vol. iii. p. 109.] It has been already stated that when Akbar returned from the conquest of Patna, he deemed it ex­pedient to send Muzaffar Khán to serve as an assistant to Farhat Khán in the siege of Rohtás, without allowing him the honour of an interview. The Khán was for some time stunned with his disgrace; but he at length listened to the prudent counsels of Khwája Shamsu-d dín Kháfí, and bringing out some of his hoards, he busied himself in equipping his forces. He soon obtained possession of Júndh and Sahsarám, which, in conse­quence of the Emperor's having been so fully occupied, had not been assigned in jágír to any one. He trained and prepared his forces carefully, and when Farhat Khán, with the other amírs, invested Rohtás, he showed himself fully ready for service, and soon proved his valour. Bahádur, the son of Haibat Khán, made a sortie from the fortress. He was opposed by Muzaffar Khán, who drove him back with a considerable loss of munitions and elephants. The amírs proceeded to invest the fortress, and he, attaching himself to Farhat Khán, exhibited great diligence.

In a short time, the conduct of Muzaffar Khán won back the Royal favour. The Emperor addressed a letter to him, with instructions to prosecute the siege of Rohtás if he and the amírs with him considered that the place might be reduced in a given time; but if the opinion was that the siege would be protracted, he was to raise it and employ his forces against the Afgháns, who were creating disturbances in Bihár, and to compel them to become dutiful subjects of the Imperial throne, or else to inflict condign punishment upon them. Muzaffar Khán replied that the army was not possessed of the imple­ments for carrying on a siege, and that the probable time of its fall could not be calculated,—it therefore seemed desirable to first rid the province of the contemptible enemy who dis­tressed it. He accordingly joined Mírzáda 'Alí Khán and the other warriors who had been left in the province by the Emperor. He also formed a union with Muhsin Khán, 'Arab Bahádur, and the forces which had been left under them by Mun'im Khán to protect his jágír. With these he rendered good service, and repressed all the malcontents in the province. He drove Adham Khán Mutanabbi out of Ibráhímpúr, and Daryá Khán from the town of Jasarkánur to Jhárkand.

When he had thus restored order, the officers of Mun'im Khán were moved with envy against him, and sent him away. As he had no jágír on which to support his followers, he retired with Khudádád Birlás and Khwája Shamsu-d dín to Júndh and Sahsarám. As he was on his way thither, intelligence reached him that those two places had been occupied by forces from Rohtás. So he continued his march, and by valour and good management cleared those two places of the enemy. He had no sooner done this than new disturbances broke out in Bihár. Disregarding the ungrateful behaviour of the Bihár officials, he once more intervened, and rendered good service.

The circumstances of the case were these. Mun'im Khan Khán-khánán had left 'Arab Bahádur in Mahír, which is a fort between Bihár and Jhárkand. Ghází and Hájí, two brothers, came with a party of turbulent Afgháns from Jhárkand, and seized the place. Many of the garrison were put to the sword; but 'Arab Bahádur made his escape, and, hastening to the amírs of the province, they gathered their forces, and marched to repress this outbreak. The Afgháns retired to the fastnesses of the mountains and defied them. The amírs went after them, and at length found themselves unable either to advance or retire. A party of nearly 300 Rájpúts, in the service of Rájá Bhagwant Dás, bravely advanced, but were defeated, and lost nearly 100 of their number. They now sent to solicit aid from Muzaffar Khán, who soon joined them with his victorious followers.