The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 13.3.5

13.3.5

They have the title of Rawal, and from the Rawal who was first known as Rawal down to Rana Amar Singh, the present Rana, there are twenty-six individuals who have ruled for the space of 461 years. During this long time they have never bent their necks in obedience to any of the kings of the country of Hindustan, and have for most of the time been rebellious and troublesome, so much so that in the reign of the late king Babar, Rana Sanga collected together all the Rajas, Rays, and Zamindars of this province, and fought a battle in the neighbourhood of Biyana with 180,000 horse and several lakhs of foot-soldiers. By the aid of Almighty God and the assistance of fortune the victorious army of Islam prevailed against the infidel forces, and a great defeat happened to them. The details of this battle have been given in the Memoirs of King Babar. My revered father (may his bright tomb be the abode of unending Grace) exerted himself greatly to put down these rebels, and several times sent armies against them. In the twelfth year after his accession he set himself to capture the fort of Chitor, which is one of the strongest forts of the inhabited world, and to overthrow the kingdom of the Rana, and after four months and ten days of siege took it by force from the men of Amar Singh's father, after much fighting, and returned after destroying the fort.