The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.43

v3.c26.43

Muhammad III of the Deccan had broken the treaty of 1466 by tampering with the loyalty of Maqbūl Khān, Mahmūd’s governor of Kherla, who transferred his allegiance to the southern kingdom and surrendered the fortress to the son of the raja whom Mahmūd had imprisoned. Mahmūd’s sons, Tāj Khān and Ahmad Khān, made a forced march to Kherla, defeated the raja’s son, put him to flight, and re-occupied the fortress. The Gonds with whom he took refuge, on hearing that Tāj Khān was preparing to attack them, sent the fugitive to him in chains. Mahmūd visited Kherla, and marched thence to Sārangpur, where he received Khvāja Kamāl-ud-dīn Astarābādī, an envoy from Tīmūr’s great-grandson, Sultān Abu-Sa‘īd, king of Transoxiana, Khurāsān, and Balkh. When the envoy departed he was accompanied by Shaikh-zāda ‘Alā-ud-dīn, whom Mahmūd sent as his envoy to Abu-Sa‘īd.