932 AH. OCT. 18th 1525 TO OCT. 8th 1526 AD. 457
force with one elephant. 'Alam Khan's party, not able to make stand against the elephant, ran away. He in his flight crossed over into the Mlan-du-ab and crossed back again when he reached the Panlpat neighbourhood. In Indrl he contrived on some pretext to get 4 laks from Mian Sulaiman.1 He was deserted by Isma'il Jilwdni, by Biban 2 and by his own oldest son Jalal, who all withdrew into the Mian-du-ab; and he had been deserted just before the fighting, by part of his troops, namely, by Darya Khan (Ntthdni)'s son Saif Khan, by Khan-ijahan (Nii/idni)'s son Mahmud Khan, and by Shaikh Jamal Farmuli. When he was passing through Sihrind with Dilawar Khan, he heard of our advance and of our capture of Milwat (Malot).3 On this Dilawar Khan who always had been my well-wisher and on my account had dragged out three or four months in prison, left 'Alam Khan and the rest and went to his family in Sultanpur. He waited on me three or four days after we took Milwat. 'Alam Khan and H5ji Khan crossed the Shatlut (jzVr)-water and went into Ginguta,4 one of the strongholds in the range that lies between the valley and the plain.5 There our Afghan and Hazara6 troops besieged them, and had almost take^that strong fort when night came on. Those inside were thinking of escape but could not get out because of the press of horses in the Gate. There must have been elephants also ; when these were urged forward, .they trod down and killed many horses. 'Alam Khan, unable to escape mounted, got out on foot in the darkness. After a lak of difficulties, he joined Ghazl Khan, who had not gone into Milwat but had fled into the
1 Erskine suggested that this man was a rich banker, but he might well be the Farmuli Shaikh-zada of f. 256^, in view of the exchange Afghan historians make of the Farmuli title Shaikh for Mian (Tarlkh-i-sher-shahi, E. & D. iv, 347 and Tarikh-i-daudl ib. 457).
2 This Biban, or Biban, as Babur always calls him without titles is Malik Biban Jilwani. He was associated with Shaikh Bayazld Farmuli or, as Afghan writers style him, Mian Bayazld Farmuli. (Another of his name was Mian Biban, son of Mian Ata Sahu-khail (E. & D. iv, 347).)
3 This name occurs so frequently in and about the Panj-ab as to suggest that it means a fort (Ar. malmat ?). This one in the Siwaliks was founded by Tatar Khan Yusuf-khail (Ludi) in the time of Buhlul Ludi (E. and D. iv, 415). v
4 In the Beth Jalandhar du-ab.
s t-e. on the Siwaliks, here locally known as Katar Dhar. Presumably they were from the Hazara district east of the Indus. The Tabaqdti-akbari mentions that this detachment was acting under Khalifa apart from Babur and marching through the skirt-hills (lith. ed. p. 182).
