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

Maharana Sāngā.
the throne. As a mark of subjection,
the Sultan yielded to the Maharana as
nazrana the jewelled crown and belt
left as a family heirloom by Sultan
Hoshang, the first king of Malwa.
The Maharana also kept at Chitor a son
of the Sultan as hostage for his future
good conduct.
It is difficult to characterise this
clemency of the Maharana as a piece of
sound policy. Though the historian Abul
Fazal gives unstinted praise to the Maha-
rana, and Nizam-ud-din Ahmad, the bigoted
author of Tabqati Akbari, extols this act
as an act of unprecedented munificence and
magnanimity, yet, judged by its political
results, the act has proved injurious to
the national cause of the Rajputs. A true
Rajput, however, is ordinarily incapable of
taking a coldly political view of things.
He is a hero, not a politician. Chivalry
is his profession. His ideal is "to die
well in battle," not "to win it." The one
aim of a true Rajput is "to make his
mother's milk resplendent," to perform
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