The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.108

v3.c25.108

Bahādur remained awhile at Māndū and marched in June to Burhānpur, where he was entertained by Muhammad Shāh of Khāndesh, who persuaded him, with some difficulty, to receive the learned and pious Shāh Tāhir, who had come as an envoy from Burhān Nizām Shāh I of Ahmadnagar. Burhān had not fulfilled the conditions of the treaty of Daulatābād, and Bahādur was consequently ill-disposed towards him, but Shāh Tāhir undertook that his master should wait on him at Burhānpur and, returning to Ahmadnagar, persuaded Burhān to carry out this promise, which he had made at Daulatābād. The humiliating circumstances of the reception were somewhat alleviated by an artifice of Shāh Tāhir, who bore a copy of the Koran for presentation to Bahādur, and thus obliged the latter to descend from his throne to do reverence to the holy book. Both Bahādur and Burhān remained for a short time at Burhānpur as the guests of Muhammad Shāh, and before they parted Bahādur gratified Burhān's vanity by recognising his title of Shāh.