The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.306

v2.c28.306

The account of Firishta² agrees in essentials with that of Ḥasan Niẓāmī, and only differs in the manner of the Hindu prince’s death. According to Firishta, when the Raja, being hard pressed, offered to submit to the Delhi Sultan, his minister ‘who resolved to hold out without coming to terms, caused his master to be assassinated, while the presents were preparing.’ But as the contemporary *Tāj ul-Ma’āthir* distinctly says that Parmār (Paramardi) died a natural death, we are perhaps justified in rejecting the testimony of Firishta as a later fabrication.³ According to both Ḥasan Niẓāmī and Firishta, after the fall of Kalinjar Quṭb ud-Dīn marched to Mahoba and ‘subdued’ it. From the fact that the latter authority describes Mahoba as ‘the capital of the principality of Kālpī (کالپي), it may probably be concluded that that city and the surrounding regions were no longer a part of the Candella dominions.