Twilight of the Sultanate c15.s1.6

c15.s1.6

¹⁶ His name is variously given as Khan-i-Khanān Farmūlī by Ahmad Yādgār (T.S.A., 66-67 and n.), Khan-i-Jahān Lodī by Ni'āmatulla (*Makhzan*, 72 (b)), and Khan-i-Jahān Nūhānī by Nizāmuddīn (T.A., I, 342) and Ferishta (I, 188). According to Ahmad Yādgār, Khan-i-Khanān (Jahān) arrived four months after the accession of Ibrāhīm, but four weeks seems more probable. According to his version only Jalāl Khan had not even reached Jaunpur when Khan-i-Khanān arrived in Agra (T.S.A., 67). Khan-i-Jahān had come to congratulate the new Sultan. He had obviously started on the first news of the death of Sikandar and the accession of his son. Moreover, a little later, we find Sultan Ibrāhīm marching against Jalāl Khan only a month and a half after his accession, when the two brothers had broken out in open hostility. This fact rules out four months.