After the victory was gained, the Emperor ascended a hill which skirted the field of battle, and applied himself to investigating the individual acts of prowess of the combatants, when suddenly Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk, who had been employed in keeping Khán-i A'zam from joining the Emperor, when he heard the news of the defeat of the Mirzás, left off blockading the city and made his appearance on the open plain. Great commotion was observable among his men, and a great hubbub arose, so the Emperor ordered a body of men to dis­charge arrows at them. They raised a terrific shout of “Yá Mu'in!” and stretched on the dust of death the band which was march­ing in advance of Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk. Now Ḥusain Khán was of the number of the very foremost in the conflict, so that the Emperor presented him with his own crescent cimeter which was the most renowned of cimeters. And Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk (P. 169) having broken his bridle fled with one rein, till his horse fell into a bed of prickly-plants, like an ass into clay, and the swift-footed steed of his life also lost its footing, and became the spoil of the Turk of Avenging Death. Sohráb Bég Turkmán, who was pursuing him, came up and seized him. At this jnncture Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk said: “Young man you seem to be a Turkmán, now Turkmáns are followers of the blessed 'Alí and of his friends.* I am a Sayyid of Bukhára, spare me.” Sohráb Bég replied: “How can I spare you? You are Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk. I recognized you and have been pursuing you headlong.” With that he alighted from his horse and struck his head from his body. Meanwhile some one else went off with his horse, so he tucked up the head in his skirt and walked off with it to the Emperor, and obtained favourable notice. Nearly 1000 heads fell on that battle-field and the Emperor ordered them to make a minaret out of those heads,* that it might serve as a warning to rebels. At the very time that the turmoil of battle with Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk ceased, the servants of Ráí Singh made Muḥammad Ḥusain Mirzá descend from the elephant, and dispatching him with a blow with a hand-spear sent him to the world of non-existence. And they sent his head and that of Ikhtiyár-ul-mulk to Ágrah:—

“Why dost thou tell the story of eloquence?
Hear a tale from Death,
That he may tell to the careless, deaf, and blind:
To whom I have given, from whom taken strength;
How I have bound the hands of kings;
In what fashion I have laid low palaces.
That he may tell thee how I break heroes,
Head and body and neck.
That when thou hast heard, through pride of power
Thou mayest not set thy heart on this faithless life.”

At this time Khán-i A'zam came out of the fortress and paid his sub­mission to the Emperor, who embraced him, and treated him with the greatest attention, and enquired with kindness after his welfare and that of the other Amírs (P. 170). The Emperor remained five days at the dwelling of I'timád Khán. He sent Quṭb-ud-dín Mu-ḥammad Khán, with his son Nourang Khán towards Bahroṇch and Chánpánír to exterminate Sháh Mirzá; and Khán-i Kalán he ap­pointed to the government of Patan, and Wazír Khán to Dúlaqah and Dandúqah. And Sháh Qulí Khán Muḥarram, and Rájah Bhagwán Dás, and Lashkar Khán Bakhshí he sent off by way of Ídar towards Ágrah and Fatḥpúr, to reduce the district of Ráná Udai Singh; and the town of Badnagar* was taken by them. On the 16th of Jamáda'l avval* he himself marched from Aḥmadábád and en-eamped at Maḥmúdábád one of the dwelling places of Sulṭán Maḥmúd of Gujrát. And from Dúlaqah he gave Khán-i A'zam and the other Amírs permission to leave that quarter. Mírzá Ghiyás-ud-dín 'Alí Qazawáni received the title of Áçaf Khán, and was appointed Díwán and Bakhshí of Gujrát. On the 3rd of Jamáda's­sání * the Emperor arrived at Ajmír, and while staying at Sángánír he appointed Rájah Todarmal (who had remained at Ágrah with a view to fitting out 1000 vessels and boats) to go and examine into the state of the revenues of Gujrát. On the 7th of Jamáda's-sání the imperial cavalcade arrived at the metropolis. The whole time of his going and coming did not occupy one month and a half.

On the 25th of this month the rite of circumcision was performed on their imperial highnesses the Emperor's sons. And on the 22nd of the month Rajab* the prince Sulṭán Salím received the tablet of in­struction from the hand of the God-fearing Mulána Mír Kalán,* the traditionalist of Herát (who was an angel in human form, and had been instructed by his reverence the paragon of traditionalists Mírak Sháh bin Mír Jamál-ud-dín), and learnt the lesson “In the name of the gracious and merciful God. The Merciful-One taught the Qurán.”*

(P. 171) In this year the Emperor recalled Muzaffar Khán, who had been appointed governor of Sárangpúr, and appointed him prime minister, and gave him in addition to his other titles that of Jum-lat-ul-mulk. And the Emperor ordered the debts of Shaikh Mu-ḥammad of Bokhára, who was killed in the battle of Patan, and of Saif Khán, who fell in the last battle of Aḥmadábád, to be paid out of the public treasury. They amounted to a lac of rupees.

And in this year the Emperor presented a sword to Rajah Todar-mal, when he brought with him a clear balance-sheet of the accounts of Gujrát. Then he sent him in conjunction with Lashkar Khán Bakhshí (whom most of the people of Hind call Shér Khán) to attempt the conquest of Bengál in the service of Mun'im Khán, the Khán Khánán. To Shahr-ulláh Kambúí of Láhór he gave the title of Shahbáz Khán, and appointed him Mír-bakhshí, and this rhyme was sealed with his name:—

“By the blessing of the favours of the Lord of Conjunction
I have reached Shahbáz Khán-hood from servitude.”

At this time Mír Muḥassan Razwí returned from an embassy to the Dak'hin, and brought suitable presents from the rulers of that country. On the 16th of Shavvál of this year the Emperor determined on a pilgrimage to Ajmír intending to pray for assistance in the conquest of Bengál. At the village of Dáír, which is four cosses from Fatḥpúr, his reverence the refuge of direction, and possessor of saintship, Khwájah 'Abd-ush-shahíd,* grandson of Khwájah Aḥrár (may God sanctify his tomb!), made intercession for the release of Mírzá Sharaf-ud-dín, but was refused. Although the Emperor did not neglect any marks of due honour and respect, and publicly even read the Fatiḥah,* still his reverence felt much grief at the refusal, and went away much saddened. At 7 cosses from Ajmír the Emperor alighted, and on the 12th (P. 172) of Zí-qa'dah* he was honoured with the privilege of paying a visit to the blessed burial-place.

On the 17th of this month took place the entrance of the earth-illumining sun, which is the greatest heavenly body and the light-giver of the world, into the constellation of Aries:* —

“The body of the Sun, when it comes from the Fish to the Ram,
The white horse of day makes the black horse of night white of foot.”

And because of the dignity of this day, which he observes every year and passes in joy and gladness, he held a high feast in the ancient fashion, and distributed the sum of a lac of rupees to every class of person present at the assembly. On the 23rd of the month Zí-qa'dah the Emperor marched out of Ajmír (which in grandeur may vie with Constantinople itself), and arriving at his capital he set on foot preparations for an expedition to Bengal, and gave orders for the building of boats. Of that number one boat was lion-prowed, and another crocodile-prowed. And verily only sea-going vessels have such beam and draught.