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But lately, retreating through Mewar, he went to the shrine of Krishna and prostrating himself before his heathen image reviled the god as the cause of his disaster.
'He has gone now to send word of the letter which I hid. They told me he was in Peshawur. I might have known that he is like the crocodile always at the other ford. He has saved me from present calamity, but I owe my life to thee. 'Is he also one of Us? Kim ducked under a Mewar camel-driver's greasy armpit and cannoned off a covey of jabbering Sikh matrons. 'Not less than the greatest.
Baber's own memoirs, Memoirs of Zehir-ed-din Muhammed Baber, emperor of Hindustan, one of the priceless documents of history, show the manner in which he conceived his mission. Here is his account of the supreme incident in his spiritual life; "In January, 1527, messengers came from Mehdi Khwajeh to announce that Sanka, the Rana of Mewar, and Hassan Khan Mewati, were on their march from the west.
"We will walk back to the Chamber of Audience," Kassim said, "for now there are things to relate." He spoke to a soldier to have his horse led behind, and as they walked he explained: "With us, Sahib, as at the death of a Rana of Mewar, there is no interregnum; the dead wait upon the living, for it is dangerous that no one leads, even for an hour, men whose guard is their sword.
Renouncing, then, his march on Mewár, he hurried with his force to Agra, and when the commandant of the imperial fortress, loyal to his master, shut its gates in his face, hastened to Allahábád, occupied the fort, seized the provinces of Oudh and Behar, and assumed the title of King. It was the news of these occurrences which drew Akbar from the Deccan.
The fighting Rajputs what of them? Backed by the English they should hold these black accursed Mahrattas in check." Barlow rose and, the wary eyes of the Chief on every move, stepped over to the table and pointed to a signature upon the document. "That," he said, "is the signature of the Rana of Mewar, meaning that he also passes the salt of friendship to Amir Khan."
I am a Chondawat, and belong to the highest of the thirty-six tribes of Mewar, and that sign of the lance was put upon state documents by Chonda; it has been since that time it is but a seal. Even as that," and Zalim proudly swung a long arm toward the wall where a huge yellow sun embossed on gypsum rested "even that is an emblem of the Children of the Sun, the Sesodias of Mewar, the Rana."
The forces placed at his disposal were considerable enough, if energetically employed, to complete the conquest of Mewár, but he displayed so little taste for the task that Akbar recalled him and sent him to his semi-independent government of Allahábád, where he spent his time in congenial debauchery, and in worse.
One cannot help being glad that the prosaic steam-engine, crowned with foul smoke and heralded by ear-piercing whistles, has not been allowed to trespass in Udaipur, wherein no discordant note is struck by train line or factory chimney, and where everything and every one is as when the city was newly built on the final abandonment of Chitor, the ancient capital of Mewar.
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