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

Maharana Sāngā. and attacked and killed the Maharana's nephew. The Rajputs surrounded Baha- dur and would have hacked him to pieces, but the Maharana's mother saved him by sending word to the Rajputs not to injure him.¹ The Maharana forgave the prince, but finding that he was disliked by the people, Bahadur left Chitor and went away towards Mewat. Sultan Muzaffar Shah died in S. 1582 (A.D. 1526),² and was succeeded by his eldest son Sikandar Khan. During the protracted illness of Muzaffar Shah, the two parties in the army, headed respec- tively by Sikandar Khan and the Sultan's third son Latif Khan, con- tended for supremacy, and on Sikandar finally ascending the throne, Latif Khan and his younger brother Chand Khan, fled for protection to the Maharana. Sikandar Khan sent one Malik Latif, on whom he conferred the title of Sharza Khan, with an army to capture them. As the ¹ Bayley's History of Gujarāt, p. 305. ² Ibid, p. 307. 92