The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.66

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Mahmūd, thus reinforced, marched to meet his brother, who advanced from Māndū. The armies met in the evening, and while they were encamped for the night Afzal Khān deserted the prince, taking half of the army with him to Mahmūd’s camp, and Muhammad fled without fighting. Mahmūd at once marched on Māndū, being joined on the way by the remnant of Shihāb-ud-dīn’s supporters from Sehore, and on November 28 found his brother, who had assembled a number of troops, barring his way to the capital. Muhammad was defeated, and fled into the fortress, and Mahmūd, after an ineffectual attempt to induce him to submit, opened the siege of the place. On January 6, 1512, he was admitted into the fortress by some of his partisans, and Muhammad and Muhāfiz Khān fled, with such jewels and treasure as they could collect and carry with them, and threw themselves on the protection of Muzaffar II of Gujarāt, who was then encamped at Baroda. The course of Muhammad’s subsequent wanderings has been traced in the preceding chapter. He found a home, for a time, in Berar, under the protection of ‘Alā-ud-dīn ‘Imād Shāh.