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

Maharana Sāngā.
Finding the circumstances favourable, Bābur
left Kabul, took a part of the Panjab and
advanced towards Delhi. Circumstances,
however, soon afterwards obliged him to
return to Kabul.
In the meantime the dissensions in the
Afghan kingdom of Delhi increased and
prince Alauddin, known as Alam Khan, the
uncle of Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, repaired to
Kabul and induced Bābur to help him to
the throne of Delhi, promising him in lieu of
his assistance, the whole of the Panjab.
Alam Khan returned to India and, aided by
Bābur’s generals in the Panjab, advanced
towards Delhi, but was defeated and put to
flight by Sultan Ibrahim. Bābur, however,
perceiving the time favourable for his designs,
as Hindustan was torn asunder by hopeless
dissensions and rivalries, crossed the Indus
with only 12,000 men, which swelled to
about seventy thousand when he came face
to face with the Sultan of Delhi on the
celebrated field of Panipat, where the sove-
reignty of Hindustan has been so often lost
and won. After waiting for a few days, during
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