Twilight of the Sultanate c13.s4.3

c13.s4.3

(in Rajasthan) with 10,000 horse and fixed his camp at Ajmer.¹¹⁷ Yādgār's narrative has not been corroborated by any other historian, although Col. Tod writes, in a very general way, that Mewar had to contest her northern boundary with the Lodīs.¹¹⁸ Sir Henry Elliot in a note on this alleged expedition says that an engagement between the royalists and Mewarīs is recorded in the time of Raimal, who ascended the *gaddī* in A. D. 1474, "but the particulars differ in every respect".¹¹⁹ G. S. Ojha also does not accept the story of Yādgār on the ground that Udaipur was not in existence then (it was founded in A. D. 1559 only)¹²⁰ and also because the name of the Sultan of Delhi has not been mentioned by Rajputs bards or Tod.¹²¹ In view of this, all that can be said is that Yādgār has probably confused Malwa with Mewar and Alhanpur with Udaipur. We know on the authority of Nizāmuddīn and Ni‘āmatulla that after the conquest of Jaunpur, Bahlūl went to Alhanpur near Ranthambhor¹²² and sacked the place. Alhanpur, therefore, seems to have been the limit of Bahlūl's empire in the south-west.