# First Battle of Panipat
**पानीपत का पहला युद्ध**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/panipat-1526/
- Chapter: [The Mughals and their rivals](https://indianepics.online/chapter/mughal.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1526 CE
- Where: Panipat, Haryana (29.39, 76.97)
- Tags: war, political

## Summary

Babur's field guns and flanking cavalry break Ibrahim Lodi's army; the Delhi Sultanate ends and the Mughal line begins.

बाबर की तोपों और घुड़सवारों ने इब्राहिम लोदी की सेना तोड़ी; दिल्ली सल्तनत समाप्त, मुग़ल वंश आरंभ।

## Account

Babur dates the battle to Friday 8 Rajab 932, which Beveridge's translation gives as 20 April 1526; many modern accounts say 21 April. Ibrahim Lodi died on the field. Babur's own figures, about 12,000 men against 100,000, are a victor's numbers; what is clear is that carts lashed into a line sheltered his matchlocks and guns while his cavalry wheeled round the flanks.

He had tried and failed to hold Samarkand; he held Hindustan instead, and set down in his Turki memoir an unsparing list of what it lacked, from good horses and grapes to ice, baths and candles.

## Sources

- Baburnama, tr. Beveridge (1922), vol. 2 — https://archive.org/details/baburnamainengli02babuuoft (Friday 8 Rajab 932, given as 20 April 1526)
- Baburnama, tr. Thackston (1996)

## Image

The battle of Panipat and the death of Sultan Ibrāhīm, the last of the Lōdī Sultans of Delhi. Ẓahīr ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (1483-1530) It contains 30 mostly full-page miniatures in fine Mughal style by at least two different artists., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_battle_of_Panipat_and_the_death_of_Sultan_Ibr%C4%81h%C4%ABm%2C_the_last_of_the_L%C5%8Dd%C4%AB_Sultans_of_Delhi.jpg

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