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

Maharana Sāngā.
as too stupid to tend his cattle and
“precisely like our Alfred the Great, having
in charge some cakes of flour, was reproached
with being more desirous of eating than
tending them.” Leaving Marwar, he went
towards Ajmer, and purchasing a horse
and arms, took service with Rao Karam
Chand, the Parmār chief of Srinagar, the
ancient capital of the Parmārs of this part
of the country, situated at a distance of
about ten miles from Ajmer. Karam
Chand had a following of two or three
thousand Rajputs, with which he used to
“run the country.”
Returning one day from one of these
raids, Sāngā alighted under a banian tree
and spreading his saddle cloth on the
ground and placing his sword under his
head reposed, his steed grazing by his side.
A ray of the sun penetrating the foliage
fell on Sāngā’s face and discovered a snake
rearing its crest over the head of the exile,
and a bird of omen perching itself on the
crested serpent was chattering aloud.
Two Rajputs, Jai Singh Bālecha and
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