Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s5.26

c14.s5.26

Leaving Bayana the King arrived at Agra via Bari, a township in the Sarkar of Agra,¹²⁰ and Dholpur. He once more thought of capturing Gwalior and, therefore, sent summons to his Amīrs to report at the capital with their armies. But his plans were set at naught by his illness, a sort of quinsy.¹²¹ "The Sultan became daily more and more emaciated and weak," writes 'Abdulla, "but owing to his overriding passion for work, he took no account of his health and discharged his duties, in spite of the physical breakdown".¹²² In the last stages even a morsel of food or water would not pass his throat, and he died on the night of Saturday-Sunday 21-22 November, 1517 (8 Zilqa'da, 923 H).¹²³