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Ghiyas Khan, commanding Nizaém-ul-mulk’s vanguard, was 
attacked by Bhim Singh, Gaj Singh, and “ Be-dost Rohelah ” 
(Dost Muhammad Kha an); while Sayyid Sher Khan, Babar 
Khan and Farah Khan turned against ‘Iwaz Khan. Gaj Singh 
and Bhim Singh, Hada, dismounted and at the head of two 
thousand Rajptits fought hand to hand, breast to breast. Quresh 
Beg, Khwajah Ma‘sim, and a few others resisted, but they were 
hardly more than a pinch of salt in flour, Against two thousand 
mail-clad Rajpiits what were forty men! Bhim Singh and Quresh 
Beg fought in single combat ; then some forty Rajpiits attacked 
the latter. In spite of these odds the Beg succeeded in killing 
him Singh before he fell himself under numberless wounds. 
The bodies of the Rajputs lay piled on the top of each other. 
Babar Khan. The fighting: was so hot that it was like the com- 
ing of the Day = Judgment. It went on for two hours, and the 
Sayyid’s men did their beat, until he and four thousand five 
hundred of his men were killed. Dost Muhammad Khan, Rohe- 
lah, was the only one who turned and fled. 
Nizam-ul-mulk was not even wounded, but Khwajah Ma‘- 
sim, Mirzé Na‘im and others of his men were killed. Sayyid 
Musafir Khan especially distinguished himself in repulsing an 
attack on Ghiyas Jchan, in which he was greatly aided by Yalras 
Khan, Khwajah ‘Abd-ul- haman, Mir Qutb-ud-din, Khwajah 
Ibrahim and some others, one hundred and tw enty- -five men in all. 
Some of the Panni Afghans, too, were killed and wounded while 
defending ‘Iwaz Khan. Altogether some thirty men were killed 
and about one hundred wounded on that side; while of the Say- 
yid’s army four thousand five hundred were killed and the number 
of wounded was not known. 
Nizam-ul-mulk’s officers asked for orders to pursue, but he 
refused. He collected the wounded near his tent and sent them 
surgeons, healing salves and clothes. For some he provided 
horses, for some palankins, - some litters. On their recover 
he asked them to enlist with hi As their master, Husain ‘Ali 
Khan, was still alive, they ended: their road expenses were 
then paid and they departed. The body of Dilawar ‘Ali Khan was 
decently buried ; con of the Hindiis were burnt under the 
supervision of Raj ah Indar oe: Nizam-ul-mulk and his 
returned to hanpur. 
8. PERPLEXITY OF THE SAYYID BROTHERS. 
end of Sha‘ban (29th=5th July 1720) ‘Abdullah 
Khan A his brother received intelligence of the disaster which 
had befallen. them in Khandesh, Not only had they failed to 
army, 
was ag 8 to fall into the ea 3 i — ste Khan’ s 
children had been intercepted, as we have s t Burhanpur, 
though they were passed on in safety ; bit use ‘Ali Khan 
