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and being glad of this opportunity sent Raja Man Singh and Sayyid 
Yusuf Khan Shahidi to Kashmir, and they started from Fathpur Sikri 
in company with Yusuf Shah in 987. (This is the date on the coin I read 
Budua-ud-Din or Lauhar Chakk. The next sentence settles the matter 
I think.) But at this time the kingship of Kashmir was in the hands 
of Lauhar Chakk. Yusuf Shah sent his son Yaqub before him to wean 
the people from their own ideas and to sow seeds of dissension in the 
council of Lauhar Chakk. When Yusuf arrived in Sialkot he went to 
Rajaori and took it and thence to Thatta. At the time Lauhar Chakk sent 
against him Yusuf Kashmiri, but the Kashmiri at once joined himself to 
the king. Yusuf Shah being thus helped went by double marches along 
the most difficult road of Jhupul to the fort of Sonpur. Lauhar Chakk 
along with Haidar Chakk, Shams Chakk and Hasti Chakk marched 
along the banks of the Jhelum and after a few days a hard battle being 
fought, victory declared in favour of Yusuf who then turned his face 
towards Srinagar. Lauhar Chakk by the intervention of Qazi Musa 
and Muhammad Saadat Bihut, had an interview with Yusuf Shah which 
resulted in his own imprisonment. From amongst the Kashmiris also 
a goodly number were imprisoned. When Yusuf Shah had satisfied 
himself about the kingship, dividing Kashmir into parts he gave jagirs 
to Shams Chakk son of Daulat Chakk and to his own son Yaqub and to 
Yusuf Kashmiri, and the rest of the land he let out to tenants in chief. 
After this, acting on the information of certain people, he put out 
the eyes of Lauhar Chakk. 
In 988 A. H. suspicion having fallen on ’All Slier Chakk and 
Muhammad Saadat Bihut and Shams Chakk they were put in prison. 
Habib Khan Chakk fled from fear to the town of Klni and Yusuf, son of 
’Ali Khan Chakk who had been imprisoned by Yusuf Shah joined Habib 
with his four brothers in that place. Thence, going to Tibet, they 
obtained help from the Rajah and returned, but arriving on the frontiers 
of Kashmir they quarrelled amongst themselves and did nothing except 
separate. The soldiery, however, got hold of Yusuf and Muhammad 
Khan and cut off their ears and noses. Habib Khan hid himself in 
the city. 
In 989 A. H. when Jalal-ud-Din Akbar was returning from Kabul 
and had encamped at Jalalabad, Mirzi Tahir a relative of Mirza Sayyid 
Khan Shahidi and Muhammad Salih Aqil were sent to Kashmir as 
ambassadors. When they arrived at Barapiila, Yusuf Shah ran to meet 
them, and kissing the orders (of Akbar) and putting them on his head,,, 
made obeisance and brought the ambassadors into the city. He then 
sent his son Haidar Khan and Shaikh Yaqub Kashmiri with many 
presents to Akbar with whom they stayed for about a year and then 
returned. 
