[20] Ajmír (north latitude 26° 29′; east longitude 74° 43′), the chief town of the district of the same name to which Sámbhar and Dandwána belong. [↑]
[21] Delváḍa and Jháláváḍa are somewhat difficult. The context suggests either Jhálor in Márwár or Jháláváḍa in the extreme south-east of Rájputána south of Kotah. The combination Delváḍa and Jháláváḍa seems to favour Káthiáváḍa since there is a Delváḍa in the south of the peninsula near Diu and a Jháláváḍa in the north-east. But the Delváda of the text can hardly be near Diu. It apparently is Delváda near Eklingji about twenty miles north of Udepur. The account of Áhmed Sháh’s expedition to the same place in a.d. 1431 (below page 239) confirms this identification. [↑]
[22] Pánipat (north latitude 29° 23′; east longitude 77° 2′), seventy-eight miles north of Dehli. [↑]
[23] Farishtah (II. 355) calls the Ídar chief Ranbal. [↑]
CHAPTER II.
ÁHMEDÁBÁD KINGS.
a.d. 1403–1573.
Chapter II.
Áhmedábád Kings, a.d. 1403–1573. The rule of the Áhmedábád kings extends over 170 years and includes the names of fifteen sovereigns. The period may conveniently be divided into two parts. The first, lasting for a little more than a century and a quarter, when, under strong rulers, Gujarát rose to consequence among the kingdoms of Western India; the second, from a.d. 1536 to a.d. 1573, an evil time when the sovereigns were minors and the wealth and supremacy of Gujarát were wasted by the rivalry of its nobles.
The date on which Zafar Khán openly threw off his allegiance to Dehli is doubtful. Farishtah says he had the Friday prayer or khutbah repeated in his name after his successful campaign against Jháláváḍa and Delváḍa in a.d. 1396. According to the Mirăt-i-Sikandari he maintained a nominal allegiance till a.d. 1403 when he formally invested his son Tátár Khán with the sovereignty of Gujarát, under the title of Násir-ud-dín Muhammad Sháh.