The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c22.41

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Sikandar halted for a month at Dholpur, placed Ādam Khān Lodī there as governor, and marched towards Gwalior. He crossed the Chambal and halted for two months on the banks of the Āsan, where the army suffered so much from a pestilence, probably cholera, that all thought of advancing to Gwalior was abandoned. The Muslim chroniclers state that Mān Singh expelled from Gwalior Sikandar's nobles who had taken refuge with him, visited the camp to make his submission, and left his son Bikramājīt, or Vikramāditya, in attendance on the king, but as Sikandar was in no position to bring pressure to bear upon Mān Singh, and found it necessary to receive Bināyik Deo and to reinstate him in Dholpur it is improbable that Mān Singh visited the royal camp. If he sent his son thither it was in the capacity of an envoy and the reinstatement of Bināyik Deo was demanded as the price of the expulsion of the refugees, for Sikandar was at the moment eager for peace, though the peace which he made was illusory, for on his return to Āgra he transferred his capital from Delhi to that city, in order to facilitate the prosecution of his designs against Gwalior. This is the first occasion on which Āgra, which acquired such importance under the Mughul emperors, comes prominently into notice, for it had hitherto been a dependency of the more important fortress of Bayāna.