Twilight of the Sultanate c15.2

c15.2

It may be recalled that shortly before his death Sikandar Lodī had summoned his nobles to the capital to finalise plans for the conquest of Gwalior.¹ In the meantime he breathed his last. Thus most of the nobles of the Sultanate as well as his sons like Ibrāhīm Khan, Jalāl Khan, Ism‘aīl Khan, Mahmūd Khan and Āzam Humayūn were present in the capital when the Sultan died. Ibrāhīm and Jalāl were the eldest and most capable sons of Sikandar Shāh. They were the offspring of the same mother and Ibrāhīm was the elder of the two. Moreover Ibrāhīm's personality, intelligence, penetration, courage and "praiseworthy moral qualities", for which he was well known, too, had marked him out for kingship.²