CHRONOLOGY

1379	Composition of Cāndāyan by Maulānā Dā’ūd.
1485	Death of Shaikh ‘Abdullāh Shaār, the founder of the Order.
1495	Death of Manjhan’s maternal grandfather, Shaikh Qāin ‘Alā.
1503	Composition of Mirigāvatī by Quban in the Sharqī court of Jaunpur.
1523	Shaikh Muḥammad Ġhau goes to Gwalior.
1526	Bābur proclaimed Emperor.
1530	Death of Bābur; accession of Humāyūn.
1540	Defeat of Humāyūn by Sher Shāh Sūrī, and his flight to Iran.
1540	The date at which Malik Muḥammad Jāyasī began to write Padmāvat, which is said to have taken eighteen years to complete.
1545	Death of Sher Shāh Sūrī. Manjhan begins to write Madhumālatī.
1553	Death of Islām Shāh Sūrī.
1554	Restoration of Humāyūn; enthronement of Akbar as Emperor.
1555	Death of Humāyūn.
1556	The end of the pretensions of the Sūr dynasty.
1563	Death of Shaikh Muḥammad Ġhau Gvāliyārī.