Twilight of the Sultanate c15.s3.31

c15.s3.31

The east having got out of control and the Rajputs having become too strong in the south and west (with Bayana having become the boundary between the Sultanate and Rana Sāngā's dominions), Ibrāhīm must have felt deeply distressed. The *de facto* ruler of Bihar had fought several battles with the forces of the Sultanate and had come off with flying colours.¹¹⁶ In these circumstances Sultan Ibrāhīm sent for Daulat Khan Lodī, son of Tātār Khan and governor of the Punjab for the last twenty years,¹¹⁷ in all probability for consultations and help. But Daulat Khan was scared by the happenings in eastern Hindustan, and being in arrears, he avoided coming. Instead, he sent his youngest son Dilāwar Khan to Agra. Sultan Ibrāhīm at once guessed the reasons for Daulat's excuse of absence, and threatened Dilāwar and his father with dire consequences if the latter did not obey his orders. Dilāwar, greatly alarmed, managed to escape to Lahore and related to his father what had transpired between Ibrāhīm and himself. Daulat Khan could clearly see what was in store for him. To escape from the wrath of the Sultan, he, in 1523, invited Bābur from Kabul to destroy the power of Ibrāhīm Lodī.