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

Maharana Sāngā. Rajputs than the Pathans, and he resolved to break the power of the Rajput kings by attacking them one by one before they might combine again and wrest his hard-won throne from him. He left the Eastern Afghan confederacy to itself for a while, little suspecting that it would, after his death, overwhelm his son and successor and drive him out of India, and would be finally crushed only with the help of the Rajputs by his grandson Akbar. Being rightly afraid of the great power of the Rajput kings of the west, Bābur resolved to attack Raja Medni Rai of Chanderi, one of the bravest and ablest of the Maharana's lieutenants. Leaving Agra in December 1527 A.D., he arrived at Kalpi on 1st January, A.D. 1528, and passing by Irej (Irich) and Kechwa, reached Chanderi on the 20th of the month. Sāngā, hearing that Bābur had gone towards Chan- deri, marched to attack him and arrived at Irich. But here his ministers, who were opposed to further warfare, finding the war- like Maharana bent on plunging into war 156