irhind, on his way to Delhi, when he
discovered their machinations. He determined, then, to renounce for
the moment his forward movement, and to return to Kabul. This he did
after having parcelled out the Punjab among chiefs upon whom he hoped
he could depend.

[Footnote 1: Dipalpur is a town in the Montgomery district to the
south-west of Lahore and forty miles from it. In Babar's time it was
a place of great importance.]

Scarcely had he crossed the Indus when the Punjab became the scene of
a renewed struggle. Allah-u-din Lodi, to whom the district of
Dipalpur had been consigned, fled in despair to Kabul, hoping that
Babar would himself undertake the invasion of India. At the moment
Babar could not comply, for the Uzbeks were laying siege to Balkh.
However he supplied Allah-u-din with troops and ordered his generals
in the Punjab to support him. But again did the expedition of this
prince fail, and he fled from Delhi in confusion to the Punjab. At
the time that he entered it, a fugitive, Babar was preparing for his
fifth and last invasion of India.

{33} Of that invasion I must be content to give the barest outline.
Accompanied by his son, Humayun, Babar descended the Khaibar Pass to
Peshawar, halted there two days, crossed the Indus the 16th of
December, and pushed on rapidly to Sialkot. On his arrival there,
December 29th, he heard of the defeat and flight of Allah-u-din.[2]
Undismayed, he marched the following morning to Parsaror, midway
between Sialkot and Kalanaur on the Ravi; thence to Kalanaur, where
he crossed the Ravi; thence to the Bias, which he crossed, and thence
to the strong fortress of Milwat, in which his former adherent Daolat
Khan, had taken refuge. Milwat soon fell. Babar then marched through
the Jalandhar Duab to the Sutlej, placing, as he writes, 'his foot in
the stirrup of resolution, and his hand on the reins of
confidence-in-God,' crossed it near Rupar, then by way of Ambala, to
the Jumna, opposite Sirsawa.[3] Thence he held down the river for two
marches. Two more brought him to Panipat, fifty-three miles to the
north-west of Delhi. There he halted and fortified his camp. The date
was April 12, 1526.

[Footnote 2: Of this march there is a detailed and most interesting
account given by Babar in his _Memoirs_, page 290, and the pages
following.]

[Footnote 3: Sirsawa lies on the south bank of the Jumna, ten miles
west-north-west of Saharanpur.]

Nine days later Ibrahim Lodi, at the hea