Indian Antiquary Vol 47

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 126

THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(MAY, 1918
as though he had been a mere officer of Gujarat, the title of Aram-i-Humâvân. Malik Lådan received the title of Khânjahan and Malik Hisâm-al-din that of Shahryår and Mahmod. after giving his nephew four elephants and 300,000 tangas, returned to Gujarat.
In the meantime A' mad Nizam Shah had returned to the frontier of his own kingdom and ventured to send a letter to Mahmud Baikarah requesting him to grant to 'Alaman, who had taken refuge at the court of Almadnagar, some small share in the dominions of his forefathers. To the letter, which Ahmad, who had revolted from his master, Mahmûd Shah Bahmani, had imprudently addressed as from one king to another, no written reply was vouchsafed, but the envoy who bore it had to endure an unpleasant interview with Mahmûd, who wrathfully asked how one who was a rebellious slave had dared to address him as one king writing to another, instead of embodying his requests in the form of a humble petition, and closed his homily with a threat that such insolence, if repeated, would not go unpunished.
Adil Khan TII, now established on the throne of Khandesh, still further cemented his alliance with Gujarat by marrying a daughter of Sultan Muzaffar, who afterwards sucovuded to the throne of Gujarat as Muzaffar II. One of his first acts was to cause Malik Fisam-aldin Shahryar, who was again plotting with Ahmad Nizâm Shah, to be assassinated. The dispatch of a large force from Gujarât averted a danger which threatened the state from the direction of Ahmadnagar, and the reign of 'Adil Khân III. was not marked by any noteworthy event until his death, on Aug. 25, 1520, when he was succeeded by his son, Mu'ammad I., who is generally known as Muhammad Shah, from his having been summoned to the throne of Gujaråt, which he never lived to occupy.
The history of Muhammad Shah's reign is to a great extent that of Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, with whom he always acted in concert and by whom he was designated heir to the kingdom of Gajarât. In 1527 a quarrel arose between Burhan Niram Sh&h I of Ahmadnagar and 'Ala-al-din 'Imad Shah of Berar, which was composed for & time by Bahådur Shah of Gujarat, who took the king of Berar under his protection. In the following year Burhân and Amir Barid of Bidar invaded Berar, and Muhammad Shah, who regarded 'Allal-din 'Imad Shah as a protégé of his uncle, Bahadur Shah, at once responded to his appeal for help and marched to his assistance. Burhan I and Amir Barid severely defeated AIAal-din and Muhammad Shah in the neighbourhood of MahOr and Muhammad flod to Asirgash, leaving all his artillery and elephants in the hands of the victors, and at onee appealed to Bahadur Shah for assistance. Bahadur Shah, Muhammad Shah, and 'Ald-al-din Imad Shah then marched to Ahmadnagar and Burhån I fled to the protection of his fortress capital, Daulatábad; but Bahadur's intervention in a quarrel which was regarded as a purely domestic affair in the Dakan and his announcement that he had annexed Berar aroused the resentment and apprehensions of the other kings of the Dakan, and Isma'il Adil ShAh of Bijapur and Sultan Quli Qutb Shah of Golconda, as well as Amir Barid of Bidar, sent contingents to the aid of Burhin, whereupon Bahadur, fearing lost his communications with his own country should be endangered by the rainy season, which was approaching, hastened to make peace. It was agreed that the fortress and district of MahOr should be restored to Ala-al-din 'Imad Shah and that Burhan should return to Muhammad Shah the elephants, guns, and other booty which he had taken from him the year before. Bah&dur's nephew was, of course, indemnified at once, and he and his uncle returned to their kingdoms, Sut. Bahadur considered that he had already done sufficient for Berar and failed to enforce the stipulation regarding the restoration of Måhûr. The kings of the Dakan, who bitterly