The Mughals occupied the capital Mandu, perpetrating massacres on the populace, according to the historian Badauni, and appropriating the wealth and harem of the Sultan.

Akbar himself intervened, riding to Malwa and removing Adham Khan from governorship of the province, seizing his spoils.

Adham Khan is said to have desired the Sultan of Malwa's wife Roopmati, who committed suicide by consuming poison rather than be taken by the Mughal military commander.

[2] After the conquest, Baz Bahadur fled Malwa to Khandesh, and was there pursued by Mughal military commander Pir Muhammad Khan who occupied Burhanpur, the capital of the area.

Baz Bahadur again escaped, first to the hills of Gondwara to conduct guerrilla warfare, then seeking shelter with Udai Singh II in 1568.