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

Maharana Sāngā.
worn out from the long continuance of the
blockade; and the surrounding country had
been laid waste by hostile armies for two
successive summers. His followers began
to desert him and return home. A party
headed by Azan Hasan and Tambal,
demanded that Bābur having taken Samar-
kand, should give Andejan and Akhsi to his
younger brother, Jahangir Mirza. Bābur
refused the demand, upon which Jahangir
besieged Andejan. Bābur was seriously ill
at the time. On his recovery, he abandoned
Samarkand to relieve Andejan. On the
way he learnt that Andejan had been
surrendered the day he had left Samar-
kand. Bābur says in his memoirs : “To
save Andejan, I had given up Samarkand,
and now found that I had lost the one with-
out preserving the other.” He was left
without a country and without followers.
He says : “I became a prey to vexation and
melancholy, for since I had been a sovereign
prince, I never before had been separated in
this manner from my country and followers;
and since the day I had known myself, I
had never experienced such care and suffer-
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