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

Maharana Sāngā.
The advisers of the Maharana, with whom
Silhidi was not at all popular, dissuaded
Sāngā from accepting these terms, and the
negotiations finally came to an end. Colonel
Tod says that though the arrangement was
negatived, treason had effected the salvation
of Bābur. Silhidi, seeing that though the
Maharana had been offered more than what
he had started from Chitor to fight for, the
overtures were rejected only because he was
the medium. He took it to heart and deter-
mined to stand in the way of victory.
This ill-advised inactivity of the Maha-
rana while Bābur was cooped up in his
encampment, though partly explained by
the protracted negotiations for peace made
by Bābur, was most deplorable. If he
supposed that Bābur was in the toils
and that every day’s delay brought with
it increased danger to him, he should
also have considered that delay is always
fatal to the cohesion of a heterogenous
mass like that by which he was surround-
ed, all parts of which owned neither
the same patriotic feelings by which he
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