Twilight of the Sultanate c13.s3.13

c13.s3.13

So in A. D. 1466 at the expiry of the period of three years, Husain Sharqī marched towards Delhi with 100,000 horse and 1,000 elephants. Sultan Bahlūl too led his army and fought the adversary near Bhatwara,⁷⁷ and a little later near Sarāi Lashkar, 25 miles east of Delhi,⁷⁸ nipping in the bud the grandiose scheme of the adversary. Sultan Husain hardly achieving anything much returned to Etawah.⁷⁹ There his mother, the illustrious matron Bibi Rājī, breathed her last.⁸⁰ Bahlūl considered it a good opportunity to placate his powerful enemy and sent Qutb Khan Lodī and Kalyān Mal, son of Rai Kīrti Singh of Gwalior⁸¹ (1455-1479), to convey his condolences to Sultan Husain. They found the atmosphere at Etawah fully surcharged with hostility towards Delhi, and the Sharqī king unaccommodating. Even they could manage their return only with great difficulty.