The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.530

v3.c20.530

There still remained Tātār Khān and Nusrat Shāh to be dealt with, and in August Mallū, carrying Mahmūd with him, marched to Pānīpat. Tātār Khān eluded him and marched to Delhi by another road, but while engaged in a vain attempt to force an entry into the capital learnt that Mallū had captured Pānīpat, taken all his baggage and elephants, and was returning towards Delhi. Tātār Khān fled and joined his father Zafar Khān, who had, two years before this time, proclaimed his independence in Gujarāt, and was now known as Muzaffar Shāh, and Nusrat Shāh found an asylum in the Doāb.