The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 27.2

27.2

They were nearly always in a state of insubordination and rebellion. So, in the days of the Emperor Babar, the Rana Sanga, having assembled all the Rajas and Rais of this country, with 180,000 horsemen and several hundred thousand infantry, fought a battle in the vicinity of Bayana against the victorious army of the Musulmans, and suffered a signal defeat. The full particulars of this battle are given in that most trustworthy work, the Waki’at, written by the Emperor Babar himself. My father also devoted himself with great ardour to the subjection of this unruly race. Several times he sent expeditions against them, and in the twelfth year of his reign he marched in person to effect the reduction of Chitor, one of the strongest fortresses in the world, and to subdue the country of the Rana. After a siege of four months and ten days, he overpowered the men of Amar Singh’s father, took the fortress, and then returned. Repeatedly he sent armies against the Rana, and each time they pressed him so hardly that he was reduced to the brink of ruin, when something occurred to save him from destruction. Near the end of his reign, my father, having directed his own attention to the conquest of the Dakhin, sent me with a large army and trusty leaders against the Rana. For reasons too lengthy to be here entered upon, both these enterprises failed.