The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.51

v3.c25.51

In 1482 Mahmūd obtained the opportunity which he sought of attacking Chāmpāner. Malik Sūdha, his governor of Rasūlābād, fourteen miles south-west of Chāmpāner, led a raid into the raja’s territories, and plundered and laid them waste nearly to the walls of the fortress, slaying the inhabitants. As he was returning, the raja, Patāī, son of Udai Singh, followed him up, attacked and slew him, recovered all his booty, took two elephants, and sacked and destroyed Rasūlābād. Mahmūd, on hearing of this defeat, assembled his forces, and on December 4, 1482, marched from Ahmadābād to Baroda, on his way to Chāmpāner. From Baroda he sent an army to besiege Chāmpāner while he invaded the raja’s territories to collect supplies for the besiegers, whom it was difficult, owing to the famine, to provision.