The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.422

v3.c20.422

Reports of the king’s sickness at Warangal had been exaggerated into rumours of his death, which had been believed by Malik Hūshang of Daulatābād, a noble with whom he had been on terms of peculiar affection and intimacy. Hūshang had risen in rebellion, but on learning that Muhammad was alive and was returning to Daulatābād fled and sought an asylum with a Hindu chieftain in the Western Ghāts, who subsequently surrendered him. The rebel, strange to say, was pardoned.