Vol. IV, No. 10.] The Luter Mughals. 531 
[N.S.] 
Bakht bawar gar-bava 
sindan 2 dann bi-shkanad, 
Tali‘-t-bargashtah 
faludah ples bi-shkanad. 
“ The fates aiding, you may bite a bit off vil, 
‘With the stars against you, your teeth besakd over flammery.”! 
Nizam-ul-mulk ordered his drums to beat for victory. 
his side the losses were few, the only men of any note who fell 
being Badakhshi Khan and Diler Khan, an officer serving under 
‘Iwaz Khan. Among the wounded were ‘Iwaz Khan himself and 
Ghiyas Khan. In addition to the guns and elephants appro- 
priated by Nizam-ul-mulk to his own use, muc oty fell into 
the hands of the soldiers and plunderers. The victors encamped 
where they were, the night being disturbed by a false alarm 
caused by au unruly elephant which broke from his chains and 
rushed about the camp, destroying as he went, until his pro- 
gress was arrested by an arrow from the bow of Mutawassil 
Khan. 
The above is the official account and is, no doubt, the one 
most ese able to Nizam-ul-mulk and his army. Other writers 
describe the event differently and tell us of an ambuscade. Such 
a device would not only accord with Nizim-ual-mulk’s scheming 
habits, but would also more satisfactorily account for the great 
loss sustained by the other side, more especially among its leaders. 
From these other sources we learn that between the two forces 
ay deep ravines where a large nes cet have been effectually 
concealed. Niz&ém-ul-mulk sent out his guns and placed them in 
this ravine. His advanced guard was concealed in the hollows 
on each side. Then two or three men, closely resembling the 
Nawab in beard, features and “ge were dressed up, on 
an apa and sent out to represent Nizam-ul-mulk at the head 
of his main body, which abe iteolt beyond the entrance to the 
ravine, ilswss ‘Ali Khan’s men came straight at their foe, and 
were drawn on and on bya 5 siegiatel retreat, Anxious to slay 

| Tarikh-i-muzaffari, f. 183. We have Nizam-ul-mulk’s official report or 
tuimar of the battle in Sahib Rae’s Masini eae (Irvine MS., p. 323). A 
copy was sent to Mubammad Khan, Bangas arrukhabad cover 
of an exulting span The _aeeee with the lines: 
Az dast o zabai bar-ayad, 
Ki;z calmer sai ba-dar- 
Sa‘di, STEUER Peenedascon. 
‘Who can succeed with hand and tongue 
“ To pay r be debt of ‘heaes to God?” 
poe Lida of wh soem Nizim-ul-mulk or his munsht was very fond, as it 
any times in his letters, see Guls han-i-‘ aan c. 1161 big (B.M. addi- 
peste 1 MS. 26, 236) by scp Ram Singh, f. 6 The above fém@r is also in 
this collection. f.132¢. In Ma,agir-ul-umara, I TL, 370, we find an ee 
this battle arms grand dfather of Isma‘il a eae Panni, 
"Khin 
foot i = front of ‘Iwaz Kh: 7 Khan’s elephant yee was k 
2 Khafi Khan, I, 88i. 
