1 Affairs of the Pan-
2 jab after the departure
3 of Tymur.
4 The King Mahmid
5 returns to Welhi,
6 Ris death, 1412,
7 Poutut Khan sie-
8 cervds, W4he.
9 But he is expelled
10 by Ahhizr hh un, sice-
11 roy of LShore,
12 Who rutes the ceun-
13 tein th. mano
14 Frenwury
15 116 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
16 After the departure of Tymur, Delhi remained in a state of anarchy
17 for a space of two months, when ‘it began to be re-peopled. It was seized
18 by Prince Nasrat Shah, son of Fettah Khan, a cousin of Mahmidd, with
19 2:000 horse from Mirut, but he was expelled by the Wazir_Ikbal Khan,
20 who resumed the administration of affairs. Being joined by Behram Khan,
21 governor of Samana, Ikbal Khan marched to Multdn to reduce Khizr
22 Khan. The united armies were encountered at Talamba by Rai Dadd,
23 Kamél Khan and Rai Habhd, the son of Rai Ratta, chiefs of the Northern
24 Provinces, but their troops were routed and they themselves taken prisoners.
25 Khizr Khan massed his armies of Multdn, Lahore and Depdlpur and gave
26 Tkbal Khan battle at Ajuddan. The two armies met on the 18th of
27 November 1405 A.D., when Ikbél Khan was slain and his army repulsed
28 with slaughter. News of this having reached Delhi, Doulat Khan Lodi
29 and Ikhtidr Khan, gvho held military commands there, invited Mahmad
30 Toghlak from Kanauj, and placed him once more on the throne. He con-
31 tracted a fever, of which he died at the capital in February 1412, after an
32 unfortunate and inglorious reign of twenty years, and with him fell the
33 dynasty of the adopted slaves of the Emperor Shahab-ud-din Ghori.
34 CHAPTER VIII.
35 THE DYNASTY OF SYADS.
36 SYAD KHIZR KHAN.
37 APSR the death of Mahmid Toghlak, the nobles elected Doulat Khan
38 Afghan Lodi, originally a private secretary, who, after the death of Ikbal
39 Khan, had been raised by the late King to the dignity of wazir, with the
40 title of Aziz-ul-Mamalik. Doulat Khan ascended the throne in April 1412
41 and had coins struck in his name. But the capital was invaded, in the
42 name of Tymir, by Khizr Khan, viceroy of Léhore, who, with an army of
43 60,000 horse, invested the citadel, and, after a siege ‘of four month a
44 pelled Doulat Khan to surrender, on the 4th of June, 1416. Doul t Khan
45 was confined in Hissdr Feroza, where he subsquently died a aaa
46 __ Khizr Khan was a Syad and the son of Malik Suleman @ man of
47 siderable repute and the adopted son of Malik Mardan Doulat ores sat
48 oe of Multén in the time of the Emperor Feroz Toghlak On the
49 Searle oe Mardan Doulat, he was succeeded in the government of
50 ee a pon Hse ea thee in his turn, was succeeded by Mahk
51 descended ioe on REL. Gh Suleman, the office of viceroy of Multan
52 os ~ ae el related how Khizr Khan was driven from Multén after
53 s struggle with Sdrang Khan, and how, on the invasion of Tym i
54 gained his favour, he was in his en Me ae
55 ener Bind a reinstated in his government of Multan, to which
56 strengthen his fame in ee ae nies i erabled Khis uae
57 . - , a a i yaY
58 throne. However, on his accession to power, he soReNE GE ei oe
59 t elon y i
60 o assume royal titles, but to govern the country in the name of his more
61 formidable predecessor, the Amir Tymir, the memory of whose bloody
62 carcer was yet fresh in the minds of the people. Accordingly he caused
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