The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.64

v4.c15.64

Pīr Muhammad Khān, who had remained in Mālwā as governor on the removal of Adham Khān, displayed great activity in clearing the country of the adherents of Bāz Bahādur. He besieged and captured Bījāgarh³ and put the whole garrison to the sword, and as Bāz Bahādur had taken refuge in Khāndesh and was causing some trouble on the southern frontier of Mālwā he invaded that country and penetrated as far as Burhānpur, massacring the inhabitants without distinction as he advanced, and sparing neither Sayyids nor learned and holy men. Mubārak II of Khāndesh and Bāz Bahādur appealed for aid to Tufāl Khān, the actual ruler of Berār, and on his joining them fell upon Pīr Muhammad Khān, dispersed his troops and forced him to flee towards Māndū. As he was crossing the Narbadā his horse was overturned in the river by a camel and he was drowned, and thus, as a historian says, “he went to fire by way of water, and the sighs of the orphans, of the weak, and of the captives did their work with him”.⁴