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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
CHAPTER VI. 
a. d. 1527. 
Baber having imprisoned the sultana who had at- 
tempted to destroy him, seized all her money and ef- 
fects, and confiscated the whole of her property. Ima- 
gining that any member of a family one of which had 
been guilty of so heinous an offence would be a dan- 
gerous object to .be near his court, he sent out of the 
country the son of the late sovereign. Meanwhile 
Humaioon made himself master of Juanpoor, a city of 
considerable importance upon the banks of the river 
Goomty, about forty miles from Benares, and joined 
his royal parent at Kalpee on the Jumna, in the 
neighbourhood of his capital. About this time the 
emperor heard that Rana Sanka, a Rajpoot prince of 
extensive influence, had been joined by several Af- 
ghan nobles and Hindoo chiefs, and had collected a 
hundred thousand cavalry to dispute the empire of 
Hindostan with the reigning sovereign in favour of 
a brother of the late monarch, and re-establish the 
Afghan dynasty. Baber marched in person against 
them. His vanguard encountered them in the neigh- 
bourhood of Biana, and was defeated. The troops 
became in consequence dispirited, this being the first 
severe check they had experienced since their last en- 
