Twilight of the Sultanate c8.s1.44

c8.s1.44

After Tīmūr’s avalanche had subsided, Tātār Khan again urged his father to seize the capital of the Sultanate. Muzaffar was now sixty,³⁸ and was reluctant to enter upon any hazardous enterprise. Seeing his father’s reluctance the highly ambitious Tātār imprisoned him in 1403 (Jamadiul Avval 806 H) and crowned himself³⁹ at Asāwal⁴⁰ with the title of Nāsiruddīn Muhammad Shāh.⁴¹ Thereafter he started feverish preparations for an attack on Delhi, and it was this news which gave an anxious time to Iqbāl Khan.⁴² But fate had willed otherwise. Muzaffar Shāh appealed to his brother Shams Khan, the vazīr of Tātār Khan, asking him to kill his treacherous son and release him from confinement. Accordingly Shams Khan poisoned his nephew at Sinor⁴³ while he was about to leave for a campaign against Delhi.⁴⁴ Muzaffar once more assumed the reins of government, and the plan to invade Delhi was given up.