Next day, when the Prince of the East (the sun) had sat on the throne of the fourth heaven and shed light upon earth, and the sol­diers of the night had been dispersed, Āṣaf Khān showed his army of nearly 5,000 horse in a plain which was broad as the palm of the genius of stoics, and open as the forehead of the generous. He was made the recipient of royal favours, and next day, which was the 3rd day of Tīr, Divine month, corresponding to Friday 14 Ẕi-l-hajja (13 July), the standards were unfurled in Jaunpūr. The quarters inside the fort were made auspicious by the royal advent, and H.M. addressed himself towards the improvement of that country which had been laid waste by the oppression of the rebels. As 'Alī Qulī Khān and the others had fled and crossed the Ganges, Āṣaf Khān and some officers of mark, such as Majnūn Khān and Shāh Muḥammad Khān Qandahāī were dispatched after them. For the sake of greater cau­tion and in order to keep up the prestige of the sovereignty the royal insignia* were placed under the charge of Wazīr Jamīl and sent to assist the imperial forces so that the officers might be able to perform the kornish and pay their due respects, and be zealous in service. 'Alī Qulī Khān and the disaffected officers had gone to a rugged place (jāī-qalb)* near Hajīpūr and entrenched themselves. They applied for help to the black-fated Afghans such as Sulaimān Kararānī, who had obtained the government of Bengal, Fath Khān Batanī*(?) and his brother Hasan Khān who was governor of Rohtas. They were in the act of applying for such assistance when H.M. resolved to send one of his confidants to Sulaimān Kararāni to deter him from joining them. Ḥājī Muḥammad Khān Sīstānī, who was distinguished for address and eloquence, was sent upon this service. When he approached Rohtās a number of contumacious Afghans who were in league with the rebels forbade him to go to Bengal and took him before 'Alī Qulī Khān. As Ḥajī Muḥammad Khān had old relations with 'Ali Qulī Khan, and the latter was desirous of gaining him over, he treated him with respect. When he found that there was no hope of his being won over he put him under arrest. Ḥājī Muḥammad Khān did not let go the thread of loyalty and service, but continually gave him good advice. The first result of Ḥājī Muḥammad's Khān's detention among the rebels was that he deterred 'Alī Qulī from dangerous acts and induced him to enter the straight path of obedience. Accordingly in the end he brought him and his mother to the sublime threshold, as will be recorded hereafter.

One of the occurences was the dispatch of Ḥasan Khān Khazāncī (treasurer) to Orissa, which is a territory lying to the S.E. of India. From the time that India was conquered, none of the princes had raised his standard over Orissa. The rulers of that country had always been powerful, and the Rajah who was now ruling them was especially so. From the time when the Afghans had stretched their hand out over Bengal they had continually planted in the gardens of their aspirations the wishing tree of the conquest of Orissa, but it never bore fruit. For on the borders thereof there were dangerous passes and lofty mountains, and heights and declivities innumerable, and difficult forests so that grasping hands of princes could not reach it. It is diffi­cult for armies to tread on that soil. Whenever any of the competitors for Bengal took refuge with the Rajah of Jagannāth, the ruler of Bengal could not lay hands on him. For example, Ibrāhīm Sūr, who has been already mentioned, took refuge with the Rajah of Jagannāth, and the latter assigned him a tract of Orissa for his subsistence. Though Sulaimān Kararānī exerted himself he could not put him down. On the contrary he was continually alarmed by him. At this time, when Jaunpūr was H.M.'s station, his sagacious mind, which* extracts the account of the morrow from the diary of to-day, determined to send one of his confidants to the Rajah in order to range him by gracious means in the lists of the obedient. Ḥasan Khān Khazāncī was chosen for this service, and Maḥāpāttar, who was unrivalled in the arts of Indian poetry, and of music, was sent along with him. The two went together to Orissa.* As soon as the Rajah heard of the Shāhinshāh's favours he sent out to welcome the visitors and had them brought with honour to his city. He treated them properly, and having bound the girdle of service on the waist of his soul he repre­sented that if Sulaimān did not insert the ring of submission to the sublime court in his mental ear, he would collect an army and bring Ibrāhim, who was Sulaimān's competitor, against Bengal. He would do such things to Sulaimān that he would be a warning to all strife mongers. After the Rajah had entertained Ḥasan Khān and Mahāpāttar for three months, he selected elephants of note and other valuable presents and sent them to court. Ḥasan Khān, Mahāpāttar and the ambassador of Rajah Mukund Deo, who was called Rai Par­mānand, had the honour of paying homage at Nagarcīn when the imperial cortège had come there from Jaunpūr.

One of the events which occurred when the camp was at Jaunpūr was the flight* of Khwāja 'Abdu-l-majād Āṣaf Khān. Good God! the worldly who are not right-thinking cast themselves into destruc­tion by their own efforts, and give such proceedings the name of policy! One of the great misfortunes is that along with their pre­sumption and ingratitude they shake like willows with regard to their own prosperity, and from some slight suspicion do to themselves in a moment a mischief that a thousand enemies could not accomplish. Thus Āṣaf Khān, out of haste and volatility, committed an act whose shamefulness could not be removed by the labours of all the writers in the world. Though the graciousness of the Shāhinshāh pardoned those faults and so cleansed the cheek of shame from the dust of crime, yet the mark of them remained. The point of this preamble is that Āṣaf Khān, who after having been appointed to high office had lately been honoured by the command of a victorious army, had, owing to the fact that fear attaches to the skirt of the perfidious, been carried away by the tale-bearings of strife-mongers, and had disregarded the preservation of his position, and from a vain terror fled to Garha. The brief account of this affair is that from the time when Āṣaf Khān con­quered the territory of Garha and had taken possession of the treasures of Cauragarha and had basely and ungratefully concealed them from his king and benefactor, by whose favour he had been advanced from the pen to the standard az qalm-b-'ilm (“from pen to panoply”), and had thereby prepared the materials of his own downfall, he had continually been under apprehensions. Though he, from not understanding matters, had sent bribes to the royal clerks, yet this had no success as nothing but earth (i.e., death) will fill the greedy maw of such covet­ous ones. They were always uttering dark hints. At the time when he brought his excellent army before H.M., and was treated with royal favours, the grandees were moved to envy and framed fictions and falsehoods. Inexperienced and unintelligent friends and chattering strife-mongers made one into a thousand and caused Āṣaf Khān to lose heart. At last, on 3 Mihr Divine month, corresponding to Sunday 20 Safar 973 (16th September, 1565), he left his tents and goods and went off to Garha with his brother Wazīr Khān and some friends, and did not turn back until he reached there. In the morning the well-wishers who had been named as his comrades reported the cir­cumstance to H.M. Their representation arrived at Jaunpūr at the time when H.M. was enjoying the pleasure of hunting. He appointed Mun'īm Khān Khān-Khānān to the charge of the army, and appointed Shujā'at Khān and some brave men to pursue Āṣaf Khān. Shujā'at Khān arrived at Manikpūr and searched for 'Aṣaf Khān. He learnt that he had reached Karra and was preparing to go to Garha. Shujā'at Khān secured boats and was meditating the crossing of the river. On the other side 'Āṣaf Khān got information of the coming of Shujā'at Khān and turned back with his army in order to stop Shujā­'at Khān on the riverbank. The boats had nearly reached the shore when Āṣaf Khān proceeded to oppose them. A hot engagement took place between him and the troops who were in the boats. On that day the interview was carried on up to evening by means of arrows and bullets. When night threw her dark veil over mortals, Āṣaf Khān thought flight his best resource and went off during the night. When at dawn Shujā'at Khān heard of the flight of 'Āṣaf Khān, he got quickly into boats and crossed the river and went off in pursuit. He came up with a party who had been left behind by Āṣaf Khān and learnt that it would be exceedingly difficult to reach him. So he turned his reins and came and did homage. He was exalted by kiss­ing the threshold at Jaunpūr.