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

Maharana Sāngā.
when Sāngā called him to his duty he
excused himself by saying that Bābur would
not allow him to do so. As Byana belonged
by right to Sāngā, he resolved to march
against Nizam Khan to enforce obedience.
Bābur wishing to forestall Sāngā, sent an
army under Tardi Beg to take it. Alim
Khan, brother of Nizam Khan, also joined
the Turks. Bābur's army was, however,
defeated and put to flight by Nizam Khan.
But when Sāngā advanced from Rantham-
bhore, Nizam Khan finding it impossible
to hold Byana against the Maharana,
voluntarily surrendered the stronghold to
Bābur,¹ receiving in return a jagir in the
Doab. Bābur's occupation of Byana was
an open attack on the territory of the
Maharana, and the Maharana regarding this
as a challenge, took up the gauntlet and
began to make preparations to drive out
the Turks from Hindustan.
Nizam Khan's action brought Sāngā
and Bābur face to face earlier than Bābur
¹ Erskine's History of India, Vol. I, pp. 452-53.
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