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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
a.d. 1529. 
Baber having received intelligence that the whole 
territory of Bengal was in a state of tranquillity, re- 
solved again to visit some of the provinces in order 
that his own eye might see how the interests of his 
government were maintained. On his way to his 
new palace and gardens in the neighbourhood of Gua- 
lior, hearing that Bahar, the capital of a district of 
the same name, and about thirty-five miles south-east 
from Patna on the Ganges, had been taken by the 
Afghans, he altered his line of march, and, crossing the 
Jumna, proceeded in the direction of Bahar, the whole 
of which country was now in the hands of his in- 
veterate foes. On the twenty-second of February, 
having reached Currah, a town of Allahabad on the 
south-west side of the Ganges and forty-five miles 
from the capital of that province, he was joined by 
the army which he had despatched towards the east 
when he quitted Agra. Here he was informed that 
Sultan Mahmood, brother to the late king, Ibrahim 
Lody, was prepared at the head of a hundred thou- 
sand Afghans to dispute his supremacy. Mahmood, 
having been joined by several amyrs whom Baber 
had put into inferior governments in the conquered 
