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-nere under Asuf Khan, * who attended them with an

Shaban 14.
A. H. 932.
May 25.
A. D. 1526.

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.†*