933 AH. OCT. 8th 1026 TO SEP. 27th 1527 AD. 547
braves to get news, they had beaten two of the Pagan's scoutingparties and had made 70 to 80 prisoners. Qismati brought news that Hasan Khan Miwati really had joined Rana Sanga.
(/. Trial-test of the large mortar off. 303.)
{Feb. 10th) On Sunday the 8th of the month (Jurnada I.), I went to see Ustad 'All-quit discharge stones from that large mortar of his in casting which the stone-chamber was without defect and which he had completed afterwards by casting the powder-compartment. It was discharged at the Afternoon Prayer ; the throw of the stone was 1600 paces. A gift was made to the Master of a sword-belt, robe of honour, and t'ipucliaq (horse).
{in. Bdbur !raves Agra against Rana Sat/gd.)
{Feb. 11tli) On Monday the 9th of the first Jumada, we got out of the suburbs of Agra, on our journey {safar) for the Holy War, and dismounted in the open country, where we remained three or four days to collect our army and be its rallying-point.1 As little confidence was placed in Hindustani people, the Hindustan amirs were inscribed for expeditions to this or to that side : 'Alam Khan {Tahangart) was sent hastily to Guallar to reinforce Rahlm-dad ; Makan, Oasim Beg Sanbali {Sambhali), Hamld with his elder and younger brethren and Muhammad Zaitun were inscribed to go swiftly to Sanbal.
(«. Defeat of the advance-force?)
Into this same camp came the news that owing to Rana Sanga's swift advance with all his army,2 our scouts were able neither to get into the fort (Blana) themselves nor to send news into it. The Blana garrison made a rather incautious sally too far out ; the enemy fell on them in some force and put them to
1 T. chafduq. Cf. the two Persian translations 215 f. 205* and 217 f. 215 ; also Ilminsky, p. 401.
bulgkan chlrlkl. The Rana's forces are thus stated by Tod (Rajastan ; Annals of Marwar Cap. ix): " Eighty thousand horse, 7 Rajas of the highest rank, 9 Raos, and 104 chieftains bearing the titles of Rawul and Rawut, with 500 warelephants, followed him into the field." Babur's army, all told, was 12,000 when he crossed the Indus from Kabul ; it will have had accretions from his own officers in the Panj-ab and some also from other quarters, and will have had losses at Panipat ; his reliable kernel of fighting-strength cannot but have been numerically insignificant, compared with the Rajput host. Tod says that almost all the princes of Rajastan followed the Rana at Kanwa.
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