And in the year 901 H. (1495 A. D.) Khān-i-Jahān Lodī died, and Aḥmad Khān his eldest son* was styled A‘zam Khān Humā-yūn. The Sulān returned from Tirhut, and went to pay a visit to the tomb of Qubu-l-Mashāikhi-l-‘Iām,* Shaikh Sharfu-d-Dīn Munīrī,* may God sanctify his resting-place, and came to Darveshpūr. From thence he set out on an expedition against Sul- ^317. ān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn king of Bangāla, and in the vicinity of Bihār, the son of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn, whose name was Dāniāl, in obedience to his father's orders came out to overthrow Sulān (Sikandar), and prepared to oppose him, but they retraced their steps, each one contenting himself with his own territories* and consenting to make peace. In this year great scarcity and dearth occurred in the camp of the Sulān; orders were promulgated* remitting the cus­tomary tribute of grain in all provinces, in fact they were entirely abolished. From thence he came to the township of Sāran, and divided that district among his own followers in perpetuity,* and came by way of Maḥlīgarḥ* to Jaunpūr, and having spent six months there proceeded to Panna.* And in the year 904 H. (1498 A.D.) he invaded the territory of Panna,* as far as Bāndhūgaṛh* which is a famous fortress plundering and taking prisoners, but being unable to take the fortress on account of its strength, went to Jaunpūr where he remained. In the meanwhile a quarrel had arisen among some of his Amīrs during a game of chaugān,* and at last it ended in an open fight,* and the Sulān becoming suspicious* of the Amīrs, gave orders that some armed and trusty guards* should attend him every night, which was accordingly done. The majority of the disaffected and disappoint­ed Amīrs urged Fatḥ Khān the son of Sulān Buhlūl to seize the empire. He in his simplicity communicated* this secret to his mother, and also to Shaikh Ṭāhir, and a party who were among the confidants of the Sulān, at the same time giving them* a memoran­dum containing the names of those confederate Amīrs. The party above mentioned diverted him from that insane idea with friendly admonition. To prove their own innocence of complicity in ^318. that treasonable design, they took that memorandum to Sulān Sikandar,* who devised some specious pretext for scattering in different directions all those Amīrs* who had shewn partiality for the Prince* Fatḥ Khān.

And in the year 905 H. (1499 A.D.) he proceeded to Sambal, and resided there for four years employed in affairs of State, and used to spend his time* either in luxurious living, or in hunt­ing expeditions.

And in the year 906 H. (1500 A.D.) Aṣghar the Governor of Dihlī began to commit malpractices. The Sulān accordingly sent orders from Sambal to Khawāṣṣ Khān the Governor of Māchhīwāra,* to seize Aṣghar and send him (into his presence); but Aṣghar anticipating this had gone humbly to Sambal where he suffered imprisonment; and Khawāṣṣ Khān received the Governorship of Dihlī. In this year also* Khān-i-Khānān Farmalī the Governor of Baiāna died, and the Government of that place was for some time entrusted to Aḥmad and Suleiman the two sons (? grandsons) of Khān-i-Khānān.* After a time they entered the Sulān's service at Sambal, and the Government of the fortress (of Baiāna) was made over to Khawāṣṣ Khān, while Ṣafdar Khān* was appointed to the charge of Āgra, which was one of the dependencies of Baiāna. Khawāṣṣ Khān with the assis­tance of ‘Ālam Khān* Governor of Mīwāt, and Khāni Khānān Lūhānī, proceeded to attempt the capture of Dholpūr.* The Rāi of that place came out to oppose them, and heavy fighting ensued in which many Muslims attained martyrdom. The Sulān leaving Sambal came with all haste to Dholpūr, and Rāi Manik Deo,* Rāja of Dholpūr, not being able to hold out, evacuated the fort and went to Gwāliār. They plundered and pillaged* the district around Dholpūr. The Sulān having remained a month in those parts left to reduce Gwāliār, and leaving Ādam Lodī there crossed the river Chambal, and encamped for two months on the banks of the river Mendakī.*

By reason of the* badness of the climate of that place sickness ^319. broke out among* the population and a pestilence arose. The Rāja of Gwāliār also came and made overtures of peace,* and delivered up Sa‘īd Khān, and Bābū Khān, and Rāi Ganesh,* who had deserted from the army of the Sulān and had taken refuge in that fort, and also sent his eldest son* to do homage to the Sulān, who sent him back after bestowing upon him a horse and robe of honour, returning himself to Agra. At the time of his return he restored the fort of Dholpūr* also to Bināyik Deo,* and having spent* the rainy season in Agra, after the rising of Canopus* in the year 910 H. (1504 A.D.), marched to reduce the fortress of Mandrāyal,* which he took without fighting from the Rāja of Mandrāyal, who sued for peace; he also destroyed all the idol-temples and churches* of the place, and, as he returned, rebuilt anew the fortress of Dholpūr, then came to Agra and gave his Amīrs permission to proceed to their several jaegīrs.* [And in this year Mīr Saiyyid Muḥammad of Jaunpūr,* may God sanctify his holy resting place, who was one of the chief of the great walīs and had even laid claim to be the Mahdī, in answer to the call of Him who has the true claim to us all answered, Here am I, while returning from Makkah the sacred city towards Hindustān, at the town of Farah* where he was buried. Qāẓi Ḥusain Zargar of Qandahār, God's mercy be on him, whom, as well as the Mīr himself I had the honour of visiting, wrote the following chronogram:

Shaikh Mubārak also invented a chronogram in the words* Maẓā Mahdī, The Mahdī has departed].*