The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.110

v3.c29.s2.110

He was succeeded by his son Kshetra, or Khet Singh, who extended the dominions of his house and is credited by the bards with a victory over the Mughul emperor Humāyūn, considerably more than a century before the latter’s birth. He was slain in a family brawl in 1382, and was succeeded by his son Laksh Singh, or Lākhā. He conquered the mountainous region of Merwāra and destroyed its chief stronghold, Bairātgarh, on the site of which he built Badnor¹, but of greater importance than this conquest was his discovery of the mines at Jāwar, sixteen miles south of Udaipur city, in territory taken by his father from the Bhīls. These produced lead, zinc, and some silver, and the wealth thus acquired enabled him to rebuild the temples and palaces destroyed by ‘Alā-ud-dīn, and to build dams to form reservoirs or lakes for irrigation. Lākhā also defeated the Sānkhla Rājputs of Nagarchal, a district lying in the north of the present State of Jaipur, but the bards are not content with these exploits, and credit him with a victory over an imaginary Muhammad Shāh Lodī of Delhi.