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 KOUT OF ALA -AD -DIN KHAN 241 that the enemy were not in great force, and immediately moved forward from the station which they had kept, though very few in number, with only a single elephant. No sooner had the elephant come up, however, than Ala- ad-din Khan's men took to flight without attempting to keep their ground. In the course of his flight Ala-ad- din Khan crossed over to the Doab side of the river, and again recrossed it toward Panipat, where he con- trived by a stratagem to get three or four lacs (750 or 1000) from Mian Sulaiman, and went on his way. Isma'il Jilwani, Babin, and Jalal Khan, the eldest son of Ala-ad-din Khan, now left him and betook them- selves to the Doab. A small part of the army which Ala-ad-din Khan had collected, such as Saif-ad-din, Darya Khan, Mahmud Khan, Khan-Jahan, Shaikh Jamal Farmuli, and some others deserted before the battle and joined Ibrahim. After passing Sirhind, Ala-ad-din Khan, Dilawar Khan, and Haji Khan heard of my approach, and that I had taken Milwat; whereupon Dilawar Khan, who had always been attached to my interests and had been detained three or four months in prison on my account, left the others, and coming by way of Sultan- pur and Kochi, waited upon me in the neighbourhood of Milwat, three or four days after the reduction of that town. After crossing the Sutlaj, Ala-ad-din Khan and Haji Khan at length reached Kinkuta, a strong castle in the hills between Dun and the plain, where they prepared to defend themselves. One of my detach- ments, consisting of Afghans and Hazaras, chanced to