A. H. 800.
A. D. 1397.

800, to take the field in person, in sup­port of his son; but hearing that Mirza Peer Mahomed Jehangeer, the grand­son of Ameer Teimoor, had already advanced into Hindoostan, and occupied Mooltan, he sus­pended his intentions for the present; and we find

A. H. 801.
A. D. 1398.

him, in the year 801, engaged in another attack on Ray Runmul, Raja of Idur. The Ray was obliged, as on the former occasion, to purchase forbearance by the payment of tribute; and as the court of Dehly was now in a state of the utmost confusion, and many rivals were contending for the crown, Moozuffur Khan and Tartar Khan declined at present making any attempt in that quarter, but returned quietly to

A. H. 803.
A. D. 1401.

Puttun. In the year 803, Mahomed Toghluk, who had now been driven from his throne, fled to Guzerat; but Moo-zuffur Shah, conceiving it impolitic to allow him to remain in his dominions, obliged him to quit them, and he took refuge in Malwa.

Moozuffur Shah, in the same year, again marched to levy the tribute of Idur; but the Raja fled, on his approach, to Beesulnuggur, leaving the King to

A. H. 804.
A. D. 1402.

occupy Idur with his own troops. In the following year, 804, he marched to Somnat, and after a bloody action, in which the Mahomedans were victorious, the Ray fled to Diù. Moozuffur Shah having arrived be­fore Diù laid siege to it, but it opened its gates without offering resistance. The garrison was, however, nearly all cut to pieces, while the Ray, with the rest of the members of his court, were trod to death by elephants. One large temple in the town was rased to the ground, and a mosque built on its site; after which, leaving his own troops in the place, Moozuffur Shah returned to Puttun.

A. H. 807.
A. D. 1404. One author relates that in the year 807 Moozuffur Shah projected the re­duction of Dehly, and the placing of his son Tartar Khan on the throne; that he actually conferred on him the titles of Gheias-ood-Dowla-ood-Deen Mahomed Shah; and that to this end he marched his army as far as the town of Suntpoor, where Tartar Khan, being taken dangerously ill, died. * Other historians state, with more probabi­lity, that Tartar Khan, taking advantage of the age and infirmities of his father, seized and imprisoned him in the town of Yessavul, since called Ahmud-abad; that he dignified his uncle Shums Khan with the title of Noosrut Khan, and causing himself to be proclaimed King, coined money under the name of Mahomed Shah Guzeratty, and then collecting an army, marched towards Dehly, for the purpose of assuming the title of King of Hindoostan; he, however, only reached the town of Suntpoor, when Moozuffur Shah procured a letter to be written to his own brother Shums Khan, entitled Noosrut Khan, pointing out the wickedness of Tartar Khan, in having deposed him, and the futility of his enter­prise on the throne of Dehly. He concluded his letter by instigating his brother to put Tartar Khan, the usurper, to death, and to return to Yessavul. In consequence of this, Noosrut Khan is said to have poisoned his nephew that very night at sup­per, and on the following day marched back and replaced his brother on the throne.

A. H. 810.
A. D. 1407. About this period Dilawur Khan, the ruler of Malwa, died, and it was gene­rally believed that his son Hooshung, who succeeded him, had poisoned him. A close alliance having subsisted between Moozuffur Shah and Dilawur Khan, the former marched with a force to D'har to avenge his untimely death, where he was opposed by Hooshung, who, after a severe action, was taken prisoner. Moozuffur Shah left his brother Shums Khan, entitled Noosrut Khan, in the government of Malwa. On the return of the army to Guzerat, Hooshung was delivered over to the Prince Ahmud, grandson of Moozuffur, and son of Tartar Khan, to be retained by him in a hill­fort. Hooshung had the address to gain the esteem of the young prince, his keeper, and some­time afterwards, when Noosrut Khan was obliged to fly from Malwa, the Prince Ahmud was pre­vailed on to write petitions in favour of Hooshung, which were graciously received at court, and he was permitted to accompany Hooshung, and rein­state him in his authority. At the same time he was directed to confer on him, in the name of Moozuffur Shah, the title of Sooltan, and the white canopy and scarlet pavilion.

On the return of the Prince Ahmud to Guzerat, Moozuffur Shah was taken dangerously ill, and seeing his own end fast approaching, nominated his grandson to succeed him on the throne of Guze-

Rubbee-oos-
Sany 6.
A. H. 814.
July 27.
A. D. 1411.

rat. * He shortly afterwards died, on the 6th day of Rubbee-oos-Sany, in the year 814, in the seventy-first year of his age, after a reign of nearly twenty years.