The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.142

v3.c25.142

'Ālam Khān received him with every demonstration of loyalty, and summoned to his aid his brother-in-law, Nāsir-ud-dīn Ulugh Khān of Junāgarh, Mujāhid Khān of Pālitāna, and other fief-holders. Daryā Khān, on discovering that the king had escaped him and found a powerful protector, renounced the struggle to maintain his ascendancy and sent to the king a mission with the royal insignia, elephants, horses, and his own letter of resignation; but his old accomplice, Fattūjī Muhāfiz Khān, coming into the city from his fief of Vīramgām, met the mission at Sarkhej, turned it back, and persuaded Daryā Khān to strike a blow for the recovery of his lost supremacy. It was necessary to oppose a puppet to the actual king, and a child of obscure origin was accordingly proclaimed and carried by Daryā Khān with the army which he led against Mahmūd III and his new protectors.