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

Maharana Sāngā I directed to be divided amongst dervishes and the poor." Bābur also vowed not to cut the beard, but to allow it to grow like a true Mussalman. Nearly 300 of his men, great and small, made such vows of reformation. “The dejection and alarm of Bābur’s troops,” says Erskine, “had at this time reached their extreme point. The contagion had infected even his highest officers.” “The destruction of the wine flasks,” says Tod, “would appear only to have added to the existing consternation.” In his despair, as a last resort, Bābur determined to make an appeal to the religious feelings of his follow- ers, “so powerful with all Moslems.” Bābur says in his Memoirs: “At this time, as I have already observed, in conse- quence of preceding events, a general consternation and alarm prevailed among the great and small. There was not a single person who uttered a manly word, nor an individual who delivered a courage- ous opinion. The Vaziers whose duty it was to give good counsel and the Amirs who 135