It is known that Shēr Khān after crossing the Bīāh (Beas) advanced slowly, and in spite of all his warlike equipment acted with great circumspection. He was greatly afraid lest the heroes of the royal army should coalesce and advancing into the field of warfare should exact vengeance from him and bring to nothing all his treach­erous machinations. He had sent a large force ahead, but was very cautious about engaging. After some days, when the defection of M. Kāmran, and the opposition of the other brothers became known far and wide, he came to Lāhōr. From thence he advanced as far as Khushāb,* and was for some days in Bhera* and its neigh­bourhood. He sent a summons to Sulān Sārang* Ghakkar and Sulān Ādam who were leading landholders in that neighbourhood, but as they had been clients of his Majesty Gītī-sitānī Firdūs-makānī, and had prospered by the favour of that exalted family they did not listen to his overtures. He advanced to Hathīāpūr* in the Ghakkar territory and sent a large force against them. The Ghak­kars fought bravely and defeated the Afghans so that many of them were captured and sold. Shēr Khān wished to march against them in person. He consulted his followers and they advised that as this tribe had strong mountains and remote (zamīnhā-i-qalb, heart, i.e., internal) territories, they should be dealt with by degrees and by policy. The proper course was to leave a large army in that neighbourhood which could both watch the royal army and also devastate the country of the Ghakkars. It was also desirable that a strong fort should be built for the carrying out of these two objects. Thus by a counter move these men would be impeded by their own impediments (az tanganāī-i-khud batang āmada) and their stubborn heads be brought low. For himself, the proper course was to turn back and apply himself to the administration of the vast country of India. In consequence of this advice he laid the foundations of the Fort of Rohtās* and having left a large force there he marched back and came to Āgra. From thence he came to Gwalior where Mīr Abū-l-Qāsim was sheltering himself, but was obliged by want of provisions to surrender. Shēr Khān became supreme, and divided all India, except Bengal, into 47 divisions. He introduced the branding* of soldiers' horses and carried into effect some of the many plans of Sulān ‘Alā'u-d-dīn which are set forth in the Tārīkh-i-Fīrūz­shāhī,* and which he had heard of. After that he proceeded against Pūran* Mal the Raja of Raisīn and Candīrī. He got the Raja out of the fort by a dishonest treaty and promises and by the efforts of sundry misguided lawyers* and wretched ignoramuses he destroyed the very men to whom he had given quarter. Thence he came to Āgra and after the manner of the governors* (ḥukkām) of Bengal established serais on the roads at the distance of every kos.

After a dangerous illness in Āgra* he marched against Māldēō the lord of Ajmīr, Nāgor and many other cities. When he had by fraud and guile* disposed of that territory he hastened to Citūr and Ranthanbūr. There too he practised his juggleries so that the custodians of the forts sent him the keys. Having got rid of every­thing there he entered the territory of Dhundīra.* From there he went to the fort of Kālinjar and laying siege to it, he made covered approaches (sābāhā) and drove mines against it. On 10th Muḥarram,* 952, or 5th March, 1545, he was consumed by flames of fire which had spontaneously arisen out of the smoke-sighs* of the oppressed. The chronogram of his combustion was found in the words “(a)z ātish murd:” “Died from fire (=952).” Though in taking this splendid citadel his life came out of its elemental quadrilateral,* yet the fort came into possession. He governed Hindustan by fraud and craft 5 years, 2 months, 13 days. Eight* days afterwards his younger son Jalāl Khān took his place, and calling himself Islām Khān took the title of Shāh. He surpassed even his father in wickedness. As the sway of those two seditious impostors was alongside of the crescent-moon* world-lighting splendours of the standards of the everlasting dominion like the light of fireflies,* semblance without substance, the mysterious design of God for the sake of some purposes, which were infolded in His wisdom's ambushes, let it prank for a few days and then levelled it with the dust of ruin, and so the world escaped from the grip of the existence of those tyrannous mischief-makers.*