Twilight of the Sultanate c13.s2.30

c13.s2.30

The last term of the truce, which Mahmūd did not intend to honour, soon became a cause for another conflict between Delhi and. Jaunpur. When, at the stipulated time, Bahlūl wrote to Jūnā Khan to vacate Shamsābād, he refused to do so.⁴⁵ Bahlūl thereupon forcibly seized it and gave it to Rai Karan. At this Sultan Mahmūd marched to Shamsābād with his army in A. D. 1456 (861 H),⁴⁶ and both sides prepared for war. On one of these days Qutb Khan Lodī and Dariyā Khan Lodī delivered a night attack on the enemy but in the fight Qutb Khan's horse stumbled and he was taken captive. He was sent to Jaunpur to be imprisoned there. Bahlūl Lodī now prepared for a full-scale battle; he left Rai Karan to hold the fort and sent princes Sikandar and Jalāl and ‘Imādul Mulk against Mahmūd, and himself followed them a little later. But at this juncture Sultan Mahmūd suddenly died, A. D. 1457 (862 H),⁴⁷ and the war ended abruptly.