The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.69

v3.c26.69

While Mahmūd was awaiting the return of a mission which he had sent to Bihjat Khān for the purpose of recalling him to his obedience, he was perturbed by the news of a revolt in his capital, and of the invasion of his kingdom by Muzaffar II of Gujarāt, but the revolt was immediately suppressed and Muzaffar was recalled to Gujarāt by domestic disturbances. No sooner had Mahmūd been reassured by this news than he learnt that Sikandar Khān was again in rebellion, and had defeated and slain a loyal officer who had endeavoured to reduce him to obedience. At the same time he learned that his brother had reached Chanderī and had been proclaimed king by Bihjat Khān and Mansūr Khān. He retired to Bhilsa and remained for some time in that neighbourhood. His inaction encouraged the rebels to send a force to Sārangpur, but the governor of that district defeated them, and the news that a contingent sent to their help by Sikandar Shāh Lodī had retired restored Mahmūd's spirits, and disheartened, in a corresponding degree, his enemies. An attempt of Muhāfiz Khān to return to Māndū was defeated, and the rebels were ready to come to terms. The king was no less weary of the conflict, which, as he now understood, was being prolonged only in the interest of the Purbiya Rājputs, and ceded to his brother the districts of Rāisen, Bhīlsa, and Dhamonī, besides remitting to him a substantial sum for his immediate needs. The retention of the money by Bihjat Khān excited the apprehensions of Muhammad, who believed that he was about to be betrayed to his brother, and fled to the protection of Sikandar Shāh Lodī, thus enabling his host to make an unqualified submission to Mahmūd, who, on December 18, 1513, was received at Chanderī by Bihjat Khān, who endeavoured, without success, to free him from his subservience to Mednī Rāi.