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

Maharana Sāngā.
Rajputs than the Pathans, and he resolved
to break the power of the Rajput kings by
attacking them one by one before they might
combine again and wrest his hard-won throne
from him. He left the Eastern Afghan
confederacy to itself for a while, little
suspecting that it would, after his death,
overwhelm his son and successor and drive
him out of India, and would be finally
crushed only with the help of the Rajputs
by his grandson Akbar.
Being rightly afraid of the great power
of the Rajput kings of the west, Bābur
resolved to attack Raja Medni Rai of
Chanderi, one of the bravest and ablest
of the Maharana's lieutenants. Leaving
Agra in December 1527 A.D., he arrived
at Kalpi on 1st January, A.D. 1528, and
passing by Irej (Irich) and Kechwa, reached
Chanderi on the 20th of the month. Sāngā,
hearing that Bābur had gone towards Chan-
deri, marched to attack him and arrived
at Irich. But here his ministers, who were
opposed to further warfare, finding the war-
like Maharana bent on plunging into war
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