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

Maharana Sāngā.
Bābur repaired to his uncle Sultan
Mahmud, who assigned the district of
Dehkāt to him. Here Bābur lived in the
house of one of the headmen of the place
and had often to go about bare-footed. The
aged mother of the chief told Bābur stories
of the wonderful land of India which she had
heard from one of her relations who had
accompanied Timur when he invaded Hindu-
stan. These stories concerning the wonders
of India, probably fired Bābur’s youthful
imagination and implanted in him an ardent
desire to visit that distant land.
From Dehkāt, Bābur sent a cap for his
brother, Jehangir Mirza, and a sword to
Tambal. Tired of “the unsettled way of liv-
ing and with having no house or home, life
became a burden to” Bābur, who preferred
“to live unknown and undistinguished into
some corner than continue to drag on exist-
ence in wretchedness and misery,” which
he then endured. Bābur’s uncle soon had
occasion to attack Tambal, and Bābur with
a part of his army took Ush and advanced
on Andejan. He was, however, surprised
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