Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 10.3

10.3

Modood, finding that his brother refused to pay him allegiance, ordered an army against him, and Madood, apprised of this circumstance, marched from Hansy, where he then resided, with his whole force, to oppose the troops of Modood, whom he met, before they reached Lahore, on the 6th Zilhuj, A. H. 433. The army of Modood was so numerous, that Madood's forces were on the point of flying, when several of the chiefs deserting their colours, enrolled themselves under the banners of the latter. But fortune or treachery here befriended Modood. On the morning of the festival of Koorban, Madood was found dead in his bed, without any previous complaint or apparent cause; and as, on the following day his vizier, Khwaja Ayaz, was also found dead, it is supposed they were poisoned. Madood's army now marched under the banners of Modood, so that the southern countries also submitted quietly. Nor was Modood less fortunate in the north. The province of Mawur-ool-Nehr, which had for some time asserted its independence, submitted to his authority. But the Suljooks (notwithstanding the King had espoused a daughter of Jakur Beg) began to make fresh incursions into his territories. In the year 435, the Raja of Dehly, in conjunction with other rajas, retook Hansy, Tahnesur, and their dependencies, from the governors to whom Modood had entrusted them. The Hindoos from thence marched towards the fort of Nagrakote, which they besieged for four months;