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urgent notes to the various commanders. ‘ Now is the time to — 
display your pues He who comes now will do a great 
service and obtain great rewards,’”’ No manof any rank ap- 
peared ; there were only Muhammad Amin Khan rss fee 
ud-din Khan, his son, Haidar Quli Khan, and Sa‘adat Khan. | 
The imperial artillery began to play upon the Sayyid’s camp. 
Just before the fight was over Khan Dauran appeared on the 
scene with some troops, but Zafar Khan, a continued 
to keep discreetly out of the way of danger. 
Unconscious of what was happening, ne officers and soldiers 
of the Savyid’s army were engaged in putting up their tents or 
obtaining their supplies for the day. The sound of firing did not 
them. It was , they assumed, nothing more than the oe 
salute notifying the emperor’s arrival at his quarters. The firs 
aring tiger just w unded by an arrow, he hurried on, venting 
Fhe! oaths and te until he reached the imperial enclosure 
(jalz); and as he came face to face with the force drawn u 
there, i 
o arrow wounds. In the struggle part of the canvas 
wall enclosing the emperor’s camp was knocked down. 
ated alone in his iron-clad canopy, Ghairat Khan pressed 
on, Siosein his arrows, until he came near the elephant of 
Haidar Quli Khan. Stinging reproaches for base ingratitude 
were hurled at the latter. On his side Haidar Quli Khan 
retorted: ‘OQ man, untrue to the salt you have eaten! 
ful tone: “‘ Fie u upon your faithfulness and upon the quality of 
your friendship!” Ghairat Khan then shot an arrow which fixed 
itself so firmly in Haidar Quli Khan’s bow, that after the fight 
it was withdrawn with Seas Behind Haidar ar Khan 

iM Qasim, igo 350, 351; Khishhal Cand, Berlin MS. 495, 
Es ives. ines tant 424; Kamwar Khan, 231 ; Warid, 1626; Khafi Khin, 
TI, 906, 907, 908; 3 hake Kha n, 108 
2 According to the Ta ari kh-t- Muhammadi his father was Sayyid 
Nasrallah, Sadat Khan, Bahader RBarhah, and his mother was Husain ‘Ali 
Khan’s sister. The Burhan-ulefutih, 168%, calls him the son of Sayyid 
n Jahan, Barhah. Khafi Khan , throughout this aes of his story (pp. 901, 
sna 05) distinguishes between | Ghaira’ t Khan and ‘Izzat Khan ; according to 
m ‘Izzat Khan was killed and Ghairat Khan surv 
my Khafi Khi an, IT, 905, says there were re four or five hundred. 

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