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thousand horsemen and about eight toa matchlockmen, 
under the command of Sayyid Sher Khan 
Then, surrounded by his principal officers on ae elephants, he 
followed in A ade at the head of the main body. 
ction began after midday with artillery fire and the 
discharge of rockets. Ghiyaés Khan and ‘Iwaz Khan advanced 
from two different directions to attack Dilawar ‘Ali Khan y 
were unable, however, to effect a junction, and ‘Iwaz Khan was 
left to meet alone the full force of the Sayyid, Rajput, and 
Afghan onset. In spite of his elephant turning round and the 
flight of many of his men, ‘Iwaz Khan kept the field manfully 
until he was severely wounded and forced to retire. With shouts 
of exultation, Sayyid Sher Khan and Babar Khan, riding rein to 
rein, started in pursuit. Qadir Dad Khan in spite ‘of his wounds 
fought on, ‘Aziz g | Khan and his brother were also wounded, 
Then ‘Azmat Kha of the principal officers under ‘Iwaz 
Khan, dismounted and ocibeaiod the ee on foot. Mutawassil 
Khan now brought up reinforcements. s one attack followed 
the 
Tenens, both Sayyid Sher Khan and Babar. Khan were cut 
own. 
Dilawar ‘Ali Khan in person now led an attack o the 
centre. Here he was struck in the chest by a bullet and Killed, 
many of the Barhah § gf le losing their lives at his side. Rao 
Bhim Singh and “gy oa aj La Ss still kept the field. Soon Bhim 
Singh was was shot.3 Singh of Narwar, a fine-looking 
young man, ented with forty or fifty of his brethren, and 
attacked at close quar Taking sword and shield in hand, 
after the death of the remaining Rajput chief, four hundred 
Rajputs and many Barhah officers, and in all some four thousand 
soldiers, fell a prey to the arrows, spears, wee said of their 
opponents. The broken remnant of survivors, among them Dost 
Muhammad Khan, Afghan, withdrew from tle field and made 
good their retreat into Malwah, pursued and plundered by the 
Mahrattah auxiliaries of Nizam-ul- mulk. 'This somewhat unex- 
ee bape — an opening to one author to quote the lines: 

1 Kamwar ‘Khan, 223 ; Khafi Khan, II, 876. The t#méar says it was a 
Thursday. 
2 Farah Khan was killed on a ‘Ali Khan’s side. See Ahwwdal-ul- 
sowha ela ; it is “ Farhad ” Khan in Gulshan-i-‘ajaib, 132%, 
s acconnt of Bhim Singh’s death, II, 487, affords us a more than 
ior noticeable instance of his flagrant inaccuracy. The fight is made 
out to be nndertaken by Bhim Singh without allies, while the — is lai 
in the broken aoe! along the ayia river, near the town of Korwai Bor4si. 
An eee touch of grotesque error is given “ the pnts 2 that Jai 
Singh, Kachhwahah, of Amber, gave fe the order to Bhim Singh and Gaj Sin gh 
r Niza m-ul-malk’s road! The town referred to is evidently Kur ‘wai in 
Malwah Feocateen, 520) on the right or east bank of the Betwa, with Borasi 
immediately opposite. A slight misreading of Khandwi, the trae fer may 
have given the hint to connect the battle with Kurwai Borasi. 


