The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.141
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.141
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Daryā Khān was now absolute in the kingdom, but Mahmūd had sufficient spirit to be sensible of the humiliation of his situation, and enlisted the aid of a humble attendant, one Chīrjī, a fowler, to escape from it. Chīrjī had horses ready one night under the city wall, and the king, leaving his palace at midnight, mounted and rode to Dhandhūka, the fief of 'Ālam Khān Lodī, nearly sixty miles south-west of Ahmadābād.