The following account is from the Akbar-náma, of Shaikh Abú-l Fazl:
Destruction of Hímú’s family.—Alwar and Ajmír.
(See Vol. V. p. 253.)
[Text, vol. ii. p. 56.] Akbar was now informed that Hájí Khán, a ghulám of Sher Khán Afghán [Sher Sháh], a brave and able general, was setting up pretensions to rule in Alwar, and that Hímú’s father and wife, and all his property and wealth, were in that country. So the Emperor sent Násiru-l Mulk [Pír Muhammad Sarwání] with a select force to attack him. Hájí Khán, in dread of the Imperial army, fled before it arrived. Alwar and all the territory of Mewát thus came into the Imperial power. The fugitives proceeded to Dewatí-májárí, a strong place, which was Hímú’s family home. Much resistance and fighting followed. Hímú’s father was taken alive, and brought before Násiru-l Mulk, who tried to convert him to the faith; but the old man said, “For eighty years I have worshipped God in the way of my own religion; how can I now forsake my faith? Shall I, through fear of death, embrace your religion without understanding it?” Mauláná Pír Muhammad treated his question as unheard, but gave him an answer with the tongue of the sword. He then returned with much spoil and fifty elephants to the Emperor.
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