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

Maharana Sāngā.
Kohik, reached Samarkand, which Shaibani
lost no time in investing. After several
months' blockade, Bābur capitulated, one of
the articles of the treaty being the marriage
of Bābur's sister, Khanzada Begum, with
Shaibani—"part of the price paid for his
unmolested escape." Thus Samarkand
was again lost in September 1501 A.D.
Bābur, now in his nineteenth year, driven
from Samarkand, made for Ilan-uti.
After great sufferings and privations and a
stunning fall from his horse, Bābur reached
Dizak, where he had meat and bread and
fruit to eat. He says in his memoirs: "In
my whole life, I never enjoyed myself so
much." "It has been my lot," he adds,
"four or five times in the course of my life,
to pass in a similar manner from distress and
suffering to enjoyment and ease, but this
was the first time I had ever been so
circumstanced, and most keenly did I feel the
transition from the injuries of my enemy
and the gnawings of absolute hunger, to the
charms of security and the delights of
the plenty." ¹
¹ Erskine's History of India, Vol. I, p. 159.
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