(P. 372). On the twentieth of Muḥarram of the year nine hundred and ninety-eight (998) having assigned the government of Kábul to Muḥammad Qásim Khán, Commander-in-chief by land and sea, the Emperor returned towards Hindústán. He appointed A'zam Khán to the government of Gujrát, and sent a farmán ordering him to remove from Málwah to that place, and sent for Nizám-ud-dín Aḥmad to return to Court. He gave Jounpúr to the Khán Khánán instead of Gujrát, and Málwah was given to Shiháb Khán. And A'zam Khán to spite Shiháb Khán laid Málwah waste, and levelled it all to the ground.
At this time Khudáwand of the Dak'hin, the heretic, to whom the sister of Abu-l-Fazl had been married in accordance with the Emperor's command, and who had received the town of Karí in the district of Gujrát, went to the abode of Hell. And the mnemosynon was found: “Khudáwand of the Dak'hin is dead.”*
And on the fourteenth of Jamáda-l-awwál* of the aforesaid year the entrance of the Sun into Aries, which began the thirty-fifth year from the Accession, took place. And the Emperor sent orders for the decoration and reparation of the Díwánkhánah of Láhor, and on the second day of Nouróz that city became the royal camping-place. And on the third day Nizám-ud-dín Aḥmad having travelled six hundred cosses in twelve days, with a body of camel-riders, arrived and did homage. The Emperor ordered that all the camel-riders should enter the city just as they had arrived; and it was a wonderful sight, and led to boundless favours from the Emperor.
At this time, after the death of Baghwán Dás, the Emperor gave to Mán Singh the title of Rájah, and sent him a farmán of condolence, in which were written kind and gracious messages beyond all bounds, and sent with it one of his own dresses of honour, and a body-guardsman's horse. And on the day of the “Honouring of the Sun” the compiler of this epitome came from Badáún to Court, and met Mírzá Nízám-ud-dín Aḥmad after a separation of seven years.
(P. 373). In this year A'zam Khán went from Gujrát to conquer the countries of Súrat and Júnágaṛh. And the Jám Satr Sál, and Doulat Khán the son of Amín Khán Ghorí, who had succeeded his father, being beguiled by temerity and the number of his retinue, came to meet him with a body of men amounting to nearly twenty thousand, and a great battle took place:—
“Though that army be as numerous as ants or locusts,
The ant will be killed when it falls on the road.”
A'zam Khán divided his army into seven sections, and fought such a battle that anything approaching it has never been described. Khwájah Rafí' Badakhshí leader of the left wing, who was a youth distinguished for his valour and courage, and Muḥammad Ḥusain Shaikh, who was one of the old Amírs, attained the felicity of martyrdom. And of the division of the vanguard Sháh Sharaf-ud-dín, brother's son to Abu Turáb, was also martyred. And of the infidels four thousand men went to Hell in the company of the son of the Jám, who was his father's vicegerent:—
“The stock which was drunk through the passing of the cup,*
Behold now it is desolate and with his cup broken!*
The king of the world is drunk with the joy of wine,
Because the Jám is come into the king's hand.”
This victory took place on the first day of the week, the sixth of Shawwál* of the year nine hundred and ninety-eight (998), and Shaikh Faizí found the date to be given by “A glorious victory.”*
In this year at Aḥmadábád that Pattern of learned and profound sages, the author of comprehensive works, the wise unto God, Shaikh Wajíh-ud-dín answered, “Adsum” to God's lictor's call, and “Shaikh Wajíh dín” was found to give the date:*
“May God have mercy on him, abundant mercy!”
In this year too Shaikh Cháyan Ladah*
successor to Shaikh 'Abd-