The Book of Akbar 138.3

138.3

In the morning intelligence was brought that the opposing army had advanced one kos beyond Bisawar and were eighteen kos distant. On the same day Mahdī Khwaja, Muhammad Sultan Mirza and the other officers who had been in Biana, arrived and did homage. During this time, daily skirmishes took place between the outposts in which gallant soldiers distinguished themselves and received the royal approbation. At length on Saturday, 13 Jumada-l-akhar 933 (16th March, 1527), Rana Sanga advanced with a large army to a hill near the village of Khanwa in the Sarkar of Biana and about two kos from the imperial camp. His Majesty states in his Memoirs that according to the Indian calculation by which territory yielding one lakh of revenue furnishes 100 horse, and one of a kror of revenue, 10,000 horse, the dominions of Rana Sanga, as yielding ten krors of revenue, furnished 100,000 horse. Many chiefs also, who had never served under him before, gave in their allegiance and increased his army. Thus Silahu-d-din, the ruler of Raisin and Sarangpur, etc., supplied 30,000 horse; Rawal Udi Singh of Nagaur, 12,000; Hasan Khan Mewati, ruler of Mewat, 12,000; Bihari Mal Idari, 4,000; Nirpat Hada, 7,000; Sitarvi Rao (of Cutch), 6,000; Dharam Deo, ruler of Mirtha, 4,000; Narsingh Deo Chauhan, 4,000; Mahmud Khan, son of Sikandar Sultan, though he had no territory, yet in hope of regaining his ancestral throne, brought with him 10,000 horse; so that the whole force amounted to two lakhs and 1,000 horse.