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

Maharana Sāngā.
The Sultan is said to have received Malik
Ayaz coldly when the latter waited on
him at Chapaneri. The Mirati Sikandari
says that not only was the Sultan very
cold to Ayaz, but that all the people of
Gujarāt called him a coward.¹
Rao Bhar Mal of Idar who had succeeded
Rai Mal outlived Muzaffar II as well as his
sons Sikandar and Mahmud II, and was alive
in A.D. 1530 when Bahadur Shah of Gujarāt
wished to make peace. It is thus quite clear that there
was nothing whatever to prevent Malik Ayaz from
continuing the war. He, however, saw the hopelessness
of gaining a victory, and foresaw how disastrous would
be his retreat to Gujarāt with the valiant Rajputs
pursuing him in a country infested with enemies.
¹ Bayley's Gujarāt, page 275. This coldness
was natural after the signal failure of the Malik in
the expedition, which had been entrusted to him at
his own entreaty. The statement of the Mirati
Sikandari that the Sultan resolved to invade Mewar
the next year but gave it up, as the Maharana sent his
son with tribute and elephants, is only eyewash.
The Sultan's resolution to invade Mewar the next year
is inconsistent with the allegation that Malik Ayaz
made peace as the Maharana offered submission. If
the Maharana had agreed to pay tribute, the proper
time for payment was when peace was made. Malik
Ayaz would have brought it with the Maharana's
son, and there was then no reason for any coldness
towards the Malik, and no occasion for the people to
call him a coward.
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