Indian Antiquary Vol 52

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 303

Oorona, 1923)
HISTORY OF THE NIZAM SHAH KINGS OF AHMADNAGAR
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THE HISTORY OF THE NIZAM SHAH KINGS OF AHMADNAGAR. By LIPUT.-COLONEL SIR WOLSELEY HAIG, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., O.M.G., C.B.E.
(Continued from page 262.) CV.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE COMING OF IBRÂHÎM ADIL SHAH II TO THE ASSISTANCE OF
BURHAN NIZAM SHAH, AND OF HIS BATTLE WITH JAMAL KHÂN. When Burhân Nizam Shah had established his camp at Khandwa he sent letters to the Sultans of the Dakan, summoning all of them to his aid. Ibrahim Adil Shah II, guided by God's grace and on the advice of Dilâvar Khân, who was the vakil of the kingdom of Bijapûr, girded up his loins to assist Burhan Nizam Shah, and marched with a very large army from Bijapur. 335
Raja 'Ali Khân, the ruler of Burhanpûr, when he heard of the march of Ibrahim Adil Shah from Bijâpûr, resolved to assist Burhân Nizâm Shah, and came forth to meet the latter before Asîrgarh, offered him pishkash and entertained him at the feast, and then marched, in company with him, into Berar. The wretch Jamal Khan heard of Ibrahim 'Adil Shah's departure from Bijapur and also of the invasion of Berar by Burhan Nigam Shah and Raja 'Ali Khân, the ruler of Burhanpûr, and thus found the whirlpool of destruction closing in upon him on every side. He regarded the business of confronting Ibrahim Adil Shâh as the more urgent and, taking with him the prince Isma'il, marched against the Bijâpúris with nearly 10,000 horse. When the two armies met, at the village of Kåri-nâri, the news of the arrival of Burhân Nizâm Shâh in Berar and of the submission to him of the principal amirs of that province, on whom Jamal Khân specially relied, was received ; but Jamal Khân, lest the news should spread in the army and cause it to disperse, caused the kettledrums to be beaten and circulated the news that Burhân Nizâm Shâh had been defeated, while he himself prepared for battle with the 'Adil Shâhîs.
That night Abhang Khân the African, who was one of Jamal Khân's principal amirs, fled with his troops from Jamal Khan's camp to the 'Adil Shâhi camp, and thence to Berar, where he joined Burhan Nizam Shah's army.
Although the flight of Abhang Khân and the news of the submission of the amírs of Berar. to Burhan Nizam Shah combined to shake the resolution of the foolish Jamal Khân, the obstinacy of ignorance was sufficient to keep him steadfast in his plans, and on the next day he prepared to attack the Bijâpûrî army. Dilâvar Khân, leaving Ibrâhîm 'Adil Shah in camp, marched with the army to repulse Jamal Khân.
When the two armies were drawn up, the warriors on either side prepared to attack their enemies. Bahadur Khân Gilâni and the Foreigners, who had escaped from the battle with Jamal Khân and had taken refuge in the Bijâpûr kingdom, charged Jamal Khan's army. Jamal Khân's gunners, who had drawn up their heavy guns in front of his army so as to form an impenetrable barrier, now fired. The noise and smoke were tremendous, but as the guns were on an eminence and the 'Adil Shâhî troops were in a hollow, the fire passed harmlessly over their heads, and the valiant Foreigners charged up to the guns, broke the line of carriages, and then
335 Sayyid 'Ali's account of Burhan's proceedings dislocates the order of events Burhan's cause had been commended by Akbar to Raja 'Ali Khân of Khandesh, but when Burhån, after his first ill. advised attempt to gain his throne, appealed to Raja 'Ali Khan, the latter counselled himn to avoid employ. ing imperial troops, whose presence would only raise the whole of the Dakan against him, and undertook to obtain for him the aid of Ibr Ahim of Bijapúr, or rather of Dilavar Bhan the African, in whose hands IbrAhim was a puppet. He fulfilled his promise, and Dildvar Khan not only assisted Burban by creating a diversion to the south of Ahmadnagar, but exhorted the amira of Berar to espouse his ca F . ii, 119.