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

Maharana Sāṅgā.
life, he felt that he had grossly and openly
violated one of the chief principles of his
faith, being firmly addicted to drinking
wine. He now determined "to renounce
this besetting sin in order to merit superior
aid to extricate him from his peril." Bābur
says in his Memoirs : "On Monday, the 23rd
of Jamadi ul Awwal, I had mounted to
survey my posts, and in the course of my ride
was seriously struck with the reflection that
I had always resolved one time or another to
make an effectual repentance, and that some
traces of the hankering after a renunciation
of forbidden works had ever remained in my
heart : I said to myself :
' Oh my soul,
How long wilt thou continue to take pleasure in sin,
Repentence is not unpalatable—taste it.’
“Having withdrawn myself from such
temptation, I vowed never more to drink
wine. Having sent for the gold and silver
goblets and cups, with all the other utensils
used for drinking parties, I directed them to
be broken, and renounced the use of wine,
purifying my mind. The fragments of the
goblets and other utensils of gold and silver
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