The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.552

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In 1406 Mahmūd sent Daulat Khān to reduce Sāmāna where, since Bahrām's death, another of Fīrūz Shāh's Turkish slaves, Bairam Khān by name, had established himself as Khizr Khān's deputy, and himself marched to Kanauj with the intention of punishing Ibrāhīm Shāh of Jaunpur for his contemptuous treatment of him when he had fled to his camp from that of Mallū. Ibrāhīm again marched to the Ganges and encamped opposite Kanauj, and after some days of desultory fighting a peace was concluded, and each monarch set out for his capital, but Ibrāhīm immediately retraced his steps and besieged Kanauj. Malik Mahmūd Tarmatī, who commanded the fortress for Mahmūd Shāh, held out for four months and then, seeing no prospect of relief, surrendered, and Ibrāhīm, who spent the rainy season at Kanauj, was joined by some discontented nobles of the court at Delhi. This accession of strength encouraged him, in October, 1407, to take the offensive against Mahmūd Shāh, and he marched to Sambhal, which was almost immediately surrendered to him by Asad Khān Lodī. Having placed Tātār Khān in command of Sambhal he marched towards Delhi, and was on the point of crossing the Jumna when he learnt that Muzaffar Shāh of Gujarāt, having invaded Mālwa and captured Hūshang Shāh, who had succeeded his father, Dilāvar Khān, in that country, intended to pursue his career of conquest towards Jaunpur. He therefore retreated towards his capital, leaving a garrison in Baran, but in the summer of 1408 Mahmūd Shāh recovered both Baran and Sambhal.