Ibrahim Lodi’s army was defeated and fled; Sanga lost an arm and was lamed in one leg.
01The Rana’s wounds
Mewar’s chronicles say Sanga led from the front and came out of Khatoli with his arm cut off by a sword and an arrow wound that left him lame. He had already lost an eye in his youth. The bards later counted eighty wounds on his body. Ibrahim sent another army soon after, and it too was beaten near Dholpur. These victories carried Mewar’s influence up to the edge of the Delhi country.
02Sources
Khatoli is known chiefly from Rajput sources, gathered in the nineteenth century in Kaviraj Shyamaldas’s Vir Vinod and later in Gaurishankar Ojha’s history of Udaipur. Babur, writing a few years afterwards, counts Sanga among the two greatest powers of Hindustan, which fits the picture of a Rana who had beaten the Lodi sultan in the field. The exact site and year are not fixed with certainty, and the Persian histories of the Lodis say little of the defeat.
Khatoli made Sanga the leading power of north India in the years just before Babur arrived.