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

Maharana Sāngā.
but offered to continue to serve him.¹
The weak Sultan, however, left Mandu²
and fled towards Gujarāt. With the help
of a Rajput named Kishna, he reached
the village of Bhakorah, on the frontiers
of Gujarāt, where the Gujarāt governor
of Dohud received him hospitably and
reported the matter to Sultan Muzaffar
Shah at Ahmadabad. The latter sent
Mahmud "the white canopy and the
scarlet pavilion," signs of royalty, and
a considerable body of troops. In a few
days, Sultan Muzaffar himself followed
with his army to reinstate Mahmud on
his throne. Medni Rai expressed his
sorrow at the folly of Mahmud in
thus compromising the honour³ of Malwa,
¹ Brigg's Ferishta, Vol., IV, page 259.
² Ibid, page 259. Ferishta calls the Sultan
"a fool in the cabinet."
³ The Mirati Sikandari says that though
Mahmud fled, Medni Rai made no difference what-
ever in the expenses of Mahmud's harem. Provisions
and clothes, perfumes and money were supplied
as before, and eunuchs attended to it as usual.
Medni Rai declared in open Durbar that he had done
nothing disloyal, and that they should write to the
Sultan to return and assume care of the country and
appoint another Vazier.—Bayley's Gujarāt, pp. 262-263.
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