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

Maharana Sāngā. Bābur repaired to his uncle Sultan Mahmud, who assigned the district of Dehkāt to him. Here Bābur lived in the house of one of the headmen of the place and had often to go about bare-footed. The aged mother of the chief told Bābur stories of the wonderful land of India which she had heard from one of her relations who had accompanied Timur when he invaded Hindu- stan. These stories concerning the wonders of India, probably fired Bābur’s youthful imagination and implanted in him an ardent desire to visit that distant land. From Dehkāt, Bābur sent a cap for his brother, Jehangir Mirza, and a sword to Tambal. Tired of “the unsettled way of liv- ing and with having no house or home, life became a burden to” Bābur, who preferred “to live unknown and undistinguished into some corner than continue to drag on exist- ence in wretchedness and misery,” which he then endured. Bābur’s uncle soon had occasion to attack Tambal, and Bābur with a part of his army took Ush and advanced on Andejan. He was, however, surprised 109