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

CHAPTER XI.
BĀBUR.
WHILE the Pathan power in India was
tottering to its fall, there appeared in Kabul
a man of extraordinary ability and character,
who was destined to found one of the
greatest kingdoms of medieval times. That
man was Zahiruddin Muhammad Bābur.
Bābur was born in the purple and
belonged to a family which had long ruled
in Central Asia. The Chaghtai Turks,¹ up
to Amir Taraghyan, were Buddhists in
faith. Taraghyan was the first to embrace
Islam. He was the father of the celebrated
Timur, or Tamerlane, who was born of
Nagina Khatun on 25 Shaban H. 736
(10th April A.D. 1336), at Sabz or Kesh,
¹ Colonel Tod thinks that there are grounds to
assert that the Chaghtai Turks were a branch of
the Yadava Rajput tribe to which the Jaisalmer family
belongs.
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