The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c27.106

v3.c27.106

The effect of this second defeat was to arouse rather than to daunt the spirit of the sultan of the Deccan, and he sent a force under Malik-ut-Tujjār to seize and occupy the island of Bombay. For the recovery of this important post Ahmad of Gujarāt sent an army under his younger son, Zafar Khān, and a fleet from Diu. His troops occupied Thāna, thus menacing Malik-ut-Tujjār’s communications, and succeeded in enticing him from the shelter of the fort and in inflicting on him such a defeat that the remnant of his troops with difficulty regained its protection. They were closely invested by the fleet and army of Gujarāt. Ahmad Bahmanī sent 10,000 horse and sixty elephants under the command of ‘Alā-ud-dīn Ahmad and Khānjahān of Berar to their relief, and thus enabled them to escape from the fortress, but the army of the Deccan was again defeated in the field, and Malik-ut-Tujjār fled to Chākan and the prince and Khānjahān to Daulatābād.