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After the death of Changez Khan, Ambar migrated to Golkonda, and after a short stay there, he went to Bijapur and joined the service of Ibrahim 'Adil Shah IL Here too he failed to win any recogni• tion, and returning to Ahmednagar once again in 1596, he joined Abhang khan, and was given command of 150 horse.
But as soon as Abdur Rehman had withdrawn, Ambar once again raised his head and with a large force of Habshis and Deccanis fell upon the Mughal outposts ~..
On assuming his new command, the Khan-i-Khanan at once sent a force under his son Mirza Iraj to crush Ambar.
When Ambar attacked the Mughals in Telingana, Mir Murtada, who was in command there, retired from Nander and joined Sher Khwaja at Bir and was there besieged by Am bar.
z The opening rounds went in favour of Raju and Ambar was forced to make up with the Khan-i-Khanan, the Mughal C-in-C.
Ambar was thus able to face the Mughals successfully, and dur• ing the twenty years of war that followed he threw them back again and again and the territory that Akbar had conquered, at such great expense in men and money, slipped out of their hands and was reconquered only to be lost again.
When the Mughal army reached the Nizamshahi frontier, it found its way barred by Ambar's forces.
When Ambar turned away from Bijapur, the 'Adil Shah sent a large force under lkhlas Khan Habshi after him, so that this army advanced from the front and Mohd.