महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

CHAPTER X.
GUJARĀT PRINCES TAKE SHELTER WITH THE
MAHARANA.
SULTAN Muzaffar Shah of Malwa had
eight sons and two daughters. The eldest
son, Sikandar Khan, was the legal heir
to the throne and was liked by the Sultan,
who had not much confidence in his other
sons. The Sultan in his lifetime named
Sikandar Khan as his successor, and gave
suitable jagirs to the others. Bahadur
Khan had a secret ambition to supplant
his elder brother on the throne, and began
to intrigue for it. He ingratiated himself
into the favour of Shaikh Jiu, a Mussal-
man holy man, who lived at the tomb of
Saint Kutabul Kutāb, near the prince’s
jagir, and who declared that the prince
would some day be Sultan of Gujarāt.
The pretensions of Bahadur Khan became
known to the army and the nobles, and
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