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MAN 467 the suzerainty, the coinage, and the khutba. * After a furious battle between Sikandar Lodi on one side, Kála Pahár and Baibák on the other, which seems to have been won by the emperor's politeness and politic clemency to the saintly Kála Pahár, Jaunpur again passed under the dominion of Delhi, although Baibák kept that province as governor, and one son, Sher Khan, was in charge of Manikpur, another, Mubarak Kban, of Dalmaa. The taluqdars who had formerly joined the Delhi kings against the Sharqi of Jaunpur now were willing to change sides. They rose in one body, and were aided by Rae Bhed of Betia in Bundelkhund." The brunt of the attack fell upon Manikpur, whence Sher Khan was said to have exer- cised great oppression. He was captured and killed; his brother Mubárak captured but spared. After several other risings and battles, diversified by the marriage of the emperor to (Sher Khan) bis nephew's widow, by the dethronement of Bai- bák, by the hunting excursions of Sikandar in Oudh or Ajodhya, and by the refusal of the Raja of Betia to give his daughter in marriage to the emperor, the rebellion was finally crushed. Not yet, however, were the evil results of Bablol Lodi's division of his dominions to cease. The emperor had bequeathe:1 a part of his dominions (Kálpi) to Khan Jahán, a relative. His son, Azam Humáyún, had yielded to Sikandar Lodi, and been made Governor of Karra Mánikpur, when Ibiá- hím, a jealous and cruel monarchi, ascended the throne. Azam Humáyúr had favoured the rival candidate, Jalál-ud-din ; he had again deserted him and been received with open arms, but it was not forgotten that he had bimself once reigned as a king, and his loyalty as a subject was questioned, A'zam Humáyún Sherwani, Governor of Karra Muinikpur. In the year 932 Hijri (A.D. 1526), during the reign of Sikandar Lodi's son and successor, Ibráhim Lodi, Azam Humáyún Sherwáni (to whom reference has already been made above), Amír-ul-Umra, or Generalissimo of the forces, was stationed at Karra Mánikpur. At this time he received the king's command to reduce the fortress of Gwalior, and to take prisoner the Raja Man Singh. Accordingly he set out from Karra Manikpur with 30,000 troops and 300 elephants. The king at the same time despatched to Gwalior another large force, under eight generals, to support him. The combined forces, having taken up their position under the walls of the fortress, commenced the assault. At this juncture the rája died, but his son; Bikramájít, took his place and continued to defend the town with the utmost energy. Failing in his endeavours to get in by assault, Azam Humáyún laid a train of gunpowder, and opened a breach in the wall. Just as victory was about to declare itself for the besiegers, the king listening to the tales of treachery poured into his ear by Azam Humáyun's enemies, was persuaded to suddenly recal him. The commander, with his son Fateh Khan, presented themselves before the king at Agra, when both were at once cast into prison. Before leaving, however, Azam Humáyún had appointed his younger son, Islám Khan, to take his place and rule in Karra Manikpur. Hearing of this, the king sent Ahmad Khan, one of + Prayer for the ruler of the country.