The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.76

v3.c29.76

Murtazā’s recent conquest aroused the hostility of Ibrāhīm Qutb Shāh and Muhammad II of Khāndesh, who regarded with apprehension the extension of his kingdom northward, its apparently imminent extension eastward, by the absorption of Bīdar, and the immediate proximity of a neighbour so much more powerful than themselves. A revolt in which the governor recently appointed by Murtazā lost his life encouraged Muhammad to intervene, and he sent an army under the command of his minister Zain-ud-dīn into Berar to support the cause of a pretender, probably a genuine scion of the ‘Imād Shāhī family, who had taken refuge at his court. Zain-ud-dīn besieged Narnāla, and the officers left by Murtazā in Berar fled to his camp, now at Māhūr. He retraced his steps, and as he approached the Taptī Muhammad withdrew from Burhānpur to Asīr, his fortress-capital, whither the army of Ahmadnagar followed him, and he purchased peace by the payment of an indemnity of 1,000,000 *muzaffarīs* of Gujarāt, of which 600,000 went into Murtazā’s treasury and 400,000 to Chingīz Khān.