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threw down their arms and begged for mercy. The king graciously spared the lives of this remnant, but all their goods and their cattle became the spoil of the victorious army. The king then turned his attention to the dwellers in that fort and encouraged them to hope for his favour.
The revenue officers then made search for Tufal Khân's treasures. The cash, the jewels, the rich stuffs, the merchandise, the horses and the elephants which had belonged to Tufal Khân as Governor of Berar became the property of Murtaza Nizam Shah, and all that hadbelonged to his army and to the inhabitants of the forts was distributed among the victorious army. The king then ordered a force of picked men, under Sayyid Husain Jarjâni, the Sar-i-Naubat of Changiz Khân, to pursue the wretched Tufal Khân lest he should effect his escape. After great exertions they found the wretch in one of the villages of Berar and seized him, and brought him in a litter to the king Sayyid Husain was received with much honour and the title of Tufâl Khân was bestowed upon him.
The same day orders were issued that the amirs and troops in Kandhár should march to the assistance of 'Ali 'Adil Shâh. These orders were carried out and this army advanced as far as Udgîr. But now Khyâja Ziyâ-ud-din Muhammad, entitled Amin Khan, envoy to Bijapur, who had, by command of Murtaza Nizam Shah come to the royal court and was now returning to Bijapur, met this army at Udgir and conveyed to them the royal command that they should await the return of the army from Berar. The amirs and the troops therefore halted at Udgir and awaited the return of the king with his army.
When Shamshir-ul-Mulk, the son of Tufal Khân, and the garrison of Gâwil heard of the fall of Narnâla and the imprisonment of Tufal Khân, they were overcome with dread and sent a messenger to the king to ask that their lives might be spared. The royal army then took possession of Gâwil, and Changiz Khan, by the royal command seized Shamshir-ul-Mulk and his officers, while the civil officers made out schedules of all the "Imad Shâhî and the Tufal Kbânî treasure in Gâwil, a schedule of which the schedule of Qarûn's treasure might well have been a rough draft, and submitted it to the king. The governors of provinces and the commandants of other forts and posts in the kingdom of Berar having heard of the capture and the disgrace of Tufal Khân, came to the court of the king of the Dakan with swords and shrouds hung round their necks and gave up the keys of their forts and of their treasure chests. They then submitted themselves entirely to the Nizam Shahf kingdom.
Ali Adil Shâh was by no means pleased with the conquest of Berar, the capture of its fortresses and the imprisonment of Tufal Khan and his sons by Murtaza Nizam Shah and heard the news with much perturbation and dissatisfaction, and Khyaja Ziya-ud-din Muhammad Amir Khân, the Ahmadnagar envoy at the court of Bijâ pûr, was at the instigation of Mustafa Khân, and of the friends of his own brother, I'tibâr Khân, who was the envoy from Bijapur to the court of Ahmadnagar, put to death. The circumstances of this affair are as follows: Although Ali.Adil Shâh, urged thereto by the necessities of the time, had consented to the conquest of Berar by Ahmadnagar and had even detached two or three officers of rank with a force of several thousand horse, in order that they might, as has been mentioned, assist in the operations to be undertaken, he was yet most unwilling to allow the kingdom of Ahmadnagar to grow more powerful, and had told I'tibâr Khân, who was his envoy at the court of Ahmadnagar, that whenever it appeared that Tufal Khan was reduced to extremities and that the army of Ahmadnagar was about to conquer Berar, he was to report the state of affairs to Bijapur at once. I'tibâr Khân not only failed to carry out this order, but sent to his master dispatches in accordance with the interest of Abmadnagar and thus played him false until the conquest of Berar was a fait accompli. Although Amin Khân had
