The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c21.46

v3.c21.46

Buhlūl now consulted his interest by feigning loyalty to Muhammad and in the following year the king marched to Sāmāna and there formally bestowed on him, in addition to the fiefs which he already held by grant from the crown, Dīpālpūr and Lahore, which were no longer his to bestow. Buhlūl deigned to accept a commission to attack Jasrat the Khokar, but, on discovering that Jasrat was inclined to favour his designs on the throne of Delhi, made peace with him on easy terms and withdrew to Sirhind, where he strengthened himself by annexing the districts adjoining those which he already held, and by enlisting large numbers of Afghāns, especially of his own tribe², in his army. He picked a quarrel, on trivial grounds, with Muhammad Shāh, marched to Delhi, and besieged it, but failed to capture it, or perhaps, for he returned unmolested to his own dominions, where he styled himself Sultān Buhlūl, was bought off, or retired on realising the magnitude of the task with which he would be confronted after taking the city.