<b>October 11, 1578:</b>
Hardly within 2 years after the Battle of Haldighati (June-1576), the frenzy of the activities and successes of mahArANA pratApa forced the great turuShka to himself march to mewAD and its allies with his imperial force. It is on this date, that Akbar finally reached gogunDA the new make-shift capital of pratApa. Before reaching here Akbar had subdued the surrounding allies that pratApa had gained in previous two years, namely Jalore, Nadole and Sirohi.
Akbar campaigned for the rest of the year throughout the forts and forests of mewAD, along with the generals from the house of Ambar. To provoke and force pratApa out in the open, he did sack the shrine of ekali~Nga, had the altar-stone turned in a box in which to keep Quran. He also uprooted the vigraha of bhawAnI from the shrine (where she is said to have appeared to bappA and granted blessings in form of a divine sword and armour.) These objects were sent off to Agra.
Despite the provocation and hectic campaign throughout the rest of the year, Akbar managed to gain nothing against pratApa, and frustrated with his failure he left towards Agra early in January of 1579.
[1580-onwards his adopted brother, and poet-devotee, Abdurrahim khan-e-khana was put in charge of campaign against pratApa, and in the years that ensued while pratApa continued to free up as many as 36 forts and fortresses of his motherland from turuShka-s, Rahim only returned to Mughal capital with poetic admiration, nearly a fascination, towards the character of pratApa.]
Hardly within 2 years after the Battle of Haldighati (June-1576), the frenzy of the activities and successes of mahArANA pratApa forced the great turuShka to himself march to mewAD and its allies with his imperial force. It is on this date, that Akbar finally reached gogunDA the new make-shift capital of pratApa. Before reaching here Akbar had subdued the surrounding allies that pratApa had gained in previous two years, namely Jalore, Nadole and Sirohi.
Akbar campaigned for the rest of the year throughout the forts and forests of mewAD, along with the generals from the house of Ambar. To provoke and force pratApa out in the open, he did sack the shrine of ekali~Nga, had the altar-stone turned in a box in which to keep Quran. He also uprooted the vigraha of bhawAnI from the shrine (where she is said to have appeared to bappA and granted blessings in form of a divine sword and armour.) These objects were sent off to Agra.
Despite the provocation and hectic campaign throughout the rest of the year, Akbar managed to gain nothing against pratApa, and frustrated with his failure he left towards Agra early in January of 1579.
[1580-onwards his adopted brother, and poet-devotee, Abdurrahim khan-e-khana was put in charge of campaign against pratApa, and in the years that ensued while pratApa continued to free up as many as 36 forts and fortresses of his motherland from turuShka-s, Rahim only returned to Mughal capital with poetic admiration, nearly a fascination, towards the character of pratApa.]