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

Maharana Sāṅga. the Khaibar Pass proceeded to Bekram, now Peshawar. After a consultation, the plan of crossing the Indus was abandoned, and the army was led on a marauding expedition to Kohat, Bannu, Bangash and Dasht Damān. Passing by a small dependency of Multan, Bābur went on to Ghazni and returned to Kabul in four months. In the meantime, Shaibani laid siege to Balkh, and its ruler, Sultan Husain Mirza, invited Bābur to assist him to repel the invasion. Bābur consented and left Kabul. But Balkh fell before Bābur reached there. Bābur, therefore, after visiting Herat, set out in December 1506 A.D., on the return journey to Kabul, where an insurrection had taken place in his absence. He had taken Kandahar and bestowed it on his brother Nasir Mirza, when Shaibani Khan advanced rapidly in the hope of surprising him there. Finding Bābur gone towards Kabul, he invested Kandahar. This so alarmed Bābur, and such was the wholesome fear inspired by the prowess and talents of Shaibani, that at a council held to decide 118