Muntakhab al-tawarikh 49.3.6

49.3.6

In the year 814 H. (1411 A.D.) Khizr Khan came to Narnaul and Miwat and ravaged that country, and blockading Sultan Mahmud in the fortress of Siri, which is part of Dihli, and Ikhtiyar Khan in Firozabad, and fighting several fierce battles, was prevented from maintaining the siege by reason of the dearness of grain, and returned to Fathpur by way of Panipat. And in the year 815 H. (1412 A.D.) Sultan Mahmud departed from this world, and the kingdom passed from the family of Firuz Shah. The duration of his reign, full as it was of turmoil and vicissitudes, was twenty years and two months, during which Sultan Mahmud had had only the name of sovereignty. Verse. Who is there in this long-enduring world Who can say “Mine is the kingdom” save the Almighty? Verse. A head they exalt to a lofty position They later strangle its neck in a noose. Save the blood of kings there is nought in this bowl, Save the dust of lovers there is nought in this desert. Of the poets of the reign of Sultan Mahmud is Qazi Zahir Dihlavi, who has left a Diwan (anthology) full of qasidahs in eulogy (of Mahmud) of which this is one: