In the year before mentioned after the conquest of Dilhī, having raised the standards of monarchy, became firmly established upon the throne of sovereignty.

This Malik Suleimān had been exalted in his childhood by Malik Naṣīru-l-Mulk Marwān Fīrūz Shāhī to the rank of a son, and had been educated accordingly. In real truth he was a Saiyyidzāda of high family, so that on one occasion Makhdūm-i-Jahāniyān Saiyyidu-s-Sādāt, the fountain of dignities, Shaikh Jalālu-l-Haqq wau-s-Shara‘wau-d-dīn al-Bukhārī may God sanctify his soul, came for some important purpose into the house of Malik Marwān Daulat; food was served, and Malik Suleimān brought the ewer and bason to Makhdūm intending to pour water over his august hands. Makhdūm addressing him by the title of Malik Marwān Daulat, said, This lad is a Saiyyid Zāda, and it is derogatory to him to allot him such a menial service. From that ^285. day forth, it was known that Malik Suleimān was an undoubted Saiyyid; but besides this, the signs of Saiyyidship, and good qualities and praiseworthy traits became manifestly visible in the character of Masnad-i-‘Ālī Saiyyid Khiẓr Khān.

Verse.

The Saiyyid was a man in whom were manifested
The virtues of Muḥammad, and the grace of ‘Alī the accepted.

The following is an epitome of the career of Malik Marwān Daulat. He was governor of Multān in the time of Fīrūz Shāh, and after the death of Malik Marwān Daulat, the Government of that district devolved upon his son Malik Shaikh, shortly after whose death it was confirmed to Malīk Suleimān. He also bade farewell to this world in that reign, and the country of Multān with its dependencies was conferred upon Saiyyid Khiẓr Khān on behalf of Sulān Fīrūz Shāh, up to the date when the aforesaid Saiyyid was advanced to the Sulānate by the Amīrs. He however would not assume the title of King; but received the title of Rāyāt-i-A‘ala.*

On the date mentioned he alighted at the palace of Sulān Maḥmūd, and gained over the hearts of great and small by public largesse and unbounded favours, distributing titles, offices, and territories among his personal attendants; in the very first year of his accession he conferred upon Malik Naḥv* (Tuḥfa) the title of Tāju-l-Mulk, and appointed him with a considerable following to the command of the eastern districts of Hindūstān; he accord­ingly crossed the river Ganges at the ford of Pīrāhā,* and entered the country of Kaithar. Rāi Har Singh and the rebels of that district sought refuge in the forests of that country* and lay hid there. Then he gave over Kaithar to rapine and plunder, whereupon Mahābat Khān Ḥākim of Badāon also came in and had an inter­view with him, and Rāi Har Singh being reduced to extremities submitted to him, agreeing to the conditions imposed of the payment of tribute and of a yearly offering. Tāju-l-Mulk and Mahābat Khān seized the banks of the river Rahab, and on arriving at the ford of Sargdawārī crossed the Ganges, chastised ^286. the infidels of Kahwar (which is now known by the name of Shamsābād)* Kanpila and Baitālī, and passing by the towns of Sakīna* and Pādham came to Rāparī;* and Hasan Khān and Malik Ḥamra his brother, who held the government of Rāparī, and Rāi Sar the governor of Chandawār, together with the infidels of Gwāliār all came and joined hands with him, agreeing to pay tribute, and voluntarily assuming the yoke of obedience. From thence Malik Tāju-l-Mulk came to the township of Jālesar,* which he wrested from the grasp of the infidels of Chandawār, and restored as of old to the control of the Muslims who had held it in days of yore, and gave fresh currency to the Muḥam-madan religion. Then having appointed his own agents and having seized the right bank of the Black water,* inflicted condign punishment upon the infidels of Etāwah, and then returned towards the city.

And in the year 818 H. (1415 A.D.) he gave to Saiyyid Khiẓr Khān the younger son* of Malik Mubārak, whose countenance betokened royal dignity, the territory of Fīrūzpūr and Sihrind, together with the whole of the districts which were in the possession of Bairam Khān Turkbacha, and subjected the supreme control and administration of that tract of country to his will and pleasure, while Malik Sadhū Nādir,* having assumed the control of the western portion of Hindūstān, was appointed to this office with the rank of Nāib-i-Shāhzāda (i.e., vicegerent of the Prince).

And in the aforesaid year the Prince here alluded to having, in concert with Malik* Sadhū Nādira and Zīrak Khān the Amīr of Sāmāna and other Amīrs and Maliks,* set in order the important affairs of that province, and put everything upon a satisfactory footing, returned to Dihlī his capital city.

And in the year 819 H. (1416 A.D.) he appointed Malik Tāju-l-Mulk * with a large army to carry the standards of Khiẓr Khān* towards Baiāna and Gwāliār; Malik Karīmu-l-Mulk, the brother of Shams Khān Auḥadī came and had an interview with him. ^287. Having cleared those regions of the thorns of infidelity he returned; and in this selfsame year some of the Turkbachas of Bairam Khān's party seized by treachery Malik Sadhū Nādira, who was holding the district of Sihrind as the Shahzāda's deputy, raised him to the dignity of martyrdom, and took possession of Sihrind. Khiẓr Khān thereupon sent Zīrak Khān to put down this rebellion, and he accordingly went thence to the foot of the hills in pursuit of those rebels, but after encountering many difficulties he returned.

In this year also Sulān Aḥmad, who was the ruler of Gujert, laid seige to Nāgor,* but upon hearing of the march of Khiẓr Khān abandoned the siege and withdrew. Khiẓr Khān came to Chhāin,* and Alyās Khān the governor of Chhāīn gave in his allegiance to him. Thence he proceeded to Gwāliār, and although he did not reduce that fortress, still he levied tribute and offerings from it, and thence came to Baiāna where Shams Khān Auḥadī gave in his submission. And in the year 820 H. (1417 A.D.) Tūghān the Ra'īs with his band who had been the murderers of Malik Sadhū revolted. Zīrak Khān was again appointed (to chastise them), and scattered that gathering in all directions.

And in the year 821 H. (1418 A.D.) Khiẓr Khān went up against Kaithar, and Har Singh Dev, who has already been men­tioned, laid waste the whole of Kaithar, and took to the forest of Ānwla, the circumference of which is twenty-four krohs. After several engagements he was defeated, and eventually withdrew to the hill country of Kumāon. Tāju-l-Mulk crossed the river Rahab and pursued him as far as the hills, and from there came to Badāon, and taking with him Mahābat Khān, the governor of Badāon, crossed the Ganges by the crossing of Bajlāna: then having dismissed Mahābat Khān, he himself went on to Itāwa, whence he returned to Dihlī laden with spoil. In this same year, ^288. also, Khiẓr Khān* again led an army against Kaithar, and proceeding by way of Kol arrived at Baitālī, where he crossed the Ganges and came to Badāon. On this occasion Mahābat Khān Badāonī being afraid of him, shut himself up in the for­tress, and opposed Khiẓr Khān for a space of six months; he was on the point of being defeated, when Qiwām Khān and Ikhtīyār Khān, and certain of the other Maḥmūd Shāhī Amīrs who had seceded from Daulat Khān and had espoused the cause of Khiẓr Khān, meditated treason against Khiẓr Khān: but Khiẓr Khāṇ becoming aware of this state of things* abandoned (the siege of) Badāon, and returned to Dihlī. And in the year 822 H. (1419 A.D.) he put those traitor Amīrs to death on the banks of the Ganges, in vengeance for the treachery of which they had been guilty. In the same year also an obscure person on the confines of Bajwāra,* falsely gave himself out to be Sārang Khān who had been killed some time before, and upon his assuming this name several adventurers flocked to him. Khiẓr Khān deputed Sulān Shāh Lodī* to proceed against him. They fought a fierce battle in the neighbourhood of Sihrind, and Sārang Khān the impostor fled and took to the mountains. Sulān Shāh made Rūpar his head quarters.* In this same year Khiẓr Khān sent Tāju-l-Mulk to Itāwa. Rāi Sipar was holding out in that fort, but sought for quarter, and consented to pay revenue to Tāju-l-Mulk. * Thence he came to Chandwār, and having laid it waste and pillaged it, proceeded by way of Kaithar to Dihlī. In this same year Malik Tāju-d-Dīn died, and the duties of his Vazīrship were entrusted to his elder son Malik Sikandar. Tūghān Ra'īs again raised an insurrection in Sihrind, and Malik Khairu-d-Dīn was appointed to oppose him, and returned after having satisfac­torily quelled his rebellion.

And in the year 824 H. (1421 A.D.) Khiẓr Khān proceeded to ^289. Mīwāt and took Kotla; thence he hastened to Gwāliār, from the Rāi of which place he levied considerable sums and returned to Itāwa. Rāi Sipar had gone to hell, and* his son had tendered his submission. In this interval* a severe illness attacked Khiẓr Khān which led to his return towards Dihlī. Having arrived at that city on the seventeenth of Jumādīu-l-Awwal in the above year, he was received into the mercy of God and passed away from the world.

Verse.

Every evening is followed by the morning.
At last there comes an end to every labour.

The duration of his reign was seven years and some months.*