Shaban 9.
A. H. 932.
May 20.
A. D. 1526.
till on the 9th of Shaban, in the year
932, the banners of Guzerat appeared
at daylight waving on the battlements.
The Prince Chand Khan, the brother
of Bahadur Shah, fled to the Deccan, and Sooltan
Mahmood retired to his palace, which he resolved
to defend till the last, but was at length induced to
surrender. Bahadur Shah was disposed to treat him
kindly, and even to restore to him his government;
but the irritability of Sooltan Mahmood's temper
and his pride combined hurried him away so far,
that he abused Bahadur Shah grossly to his face.
He was in consequence ordered into confinement
with his seven sons, and sent to the fort of Champa-
escort. Five days afterwards, viz. on the 14th of the same month, the detachment was attacked by two thousand Bheels and Kolies in camp at Dohud; and Asuf Khan, supposing this formidable assault was made for the purpose of effecting the release of the Malwa royal family, ordered the King and his sons to be put to death; * so that (excepting Sahib Khan, who had been formerly created Sooltan Mahomed, and was then in attendance on Babur Padshah,) not a single male of the house of Khiljy remained; and
A. H. 941.
A. D. 1534.
the kingdom of Malwa, in the year 941, became incorporated with that of Guzerat, until it was eventually conquered in the year 978, by Akbur Padshah, Emperor of Dehly.†*