Before Sikander Lodi arrived to give audience, his assembled nobles had been overpowered by a fragrance that wafted in from the ante-chamber where the aide of the Rana of Jodhpur was waiting with his gift of fresh pomegranates for the sultan.
The Rana hearing rumours that the sultan in need of funds for his campaigns was planning to revise his tribute upwards, had sent an offering to the Lodi court to gauge the sultan’s mood.
Having tasted the fruit, the sultan remarked that he
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