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Vol. IV, No. 10.] The Later Mughals. _ B79 
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was wounded by an arrow near the eye,! and a ball from a swivel 
gun struck him on the knee. 
After a time the men of Khan Dauran, Haidar Quli Khao, 
Sa‘adat Khan, and Muhammad Khan, B angash, surrounded th 
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but, clad in chain-mail though he was, he leapt to the ground 
sword in hand, intent on fighting to the death. In spite of their 
knowing his practice of fighting on foot at the crisis of a battle, 
eee wazir’s troops, when they saw his elephant without a rider, 
ned that their leader must have fled, and each man began 
6: think only of his own safety. Sayyid ‘Ali Khan (brother of 
Abi,l Muhsin Khan, the bakhshi) was wounded and _ taken. 
Then Tali‘yar Khan charged at the head of his men and cut down 
Shekh Natht, commanding ‘Abdullah Khan’s toe and the 
Rajpits came up, took pre. of the Shekh’s bod arried 
it to the imperial camp. Najm-ud-din ‘Ali Khan aad ‘Ghazi-ud- 
din Khan did their utmost to rally the men, but no one paid them 
any heed. Shuja‘atallah Khan, Za,lfiqar ‘Ali Khan and ‘Abdul- 
lah Khan, Tarin, fled. Even Saif-ud-din ‘Ali Khan thought the 
day was lost and left the field along with two or three hundred 
men, taking with him Prince Ibrahim, who quitted his elephant 
and mounted a horse. Ibrahim’s elephant and imperial um- 
The feebleness of the defence on the Sayyids’ part would be 
fully proved if we believe, as Warid tells us, vir after two ae 
ting only forty men were left dead on the field? ‘ 
ajm-ud-din ‘Ali Khan, a drawn mae in his hand, si on 
to enquire for and search out his brother.. He found ‘Abdullah 
Khan standing on the ground quite alone, and although wounded, 
in the hand still fighting like a lion, while on every side the crowd 
of his eek grew greater every minute, post far not one of 
all earthly croitadan 5." ding a verse of Sa‘di, Shirazi, ees 
the oceasion.§ Bonen r Quli ‘Khan, who had noticed that the 

1 He legal his ey+ from this wound, and the glass ball by which he 
replaced i a anbject of wonder to hes nego Lae for the — of 
his life Ma patra thon IT, 508 ; afi 
2 Maohsmm» Ree | Lahori , 878; Khifi Khan, 931. 932; Tarikh- -iemugaf. 
fart, 215; Warid, 1643; Baydn-i- wigs’, 447. 
3 Ounin = dir cé gird b@yad sas 
in a amsher-i-ghaziyan agar, : : ? 
ua. act the weet when duty calls, eee re 
Thus do fi hrers’ swords leave their mar ‘. 
Khizr Kh hen: ‘who took. part in ‘the battle as one of — Sayyid’ 8 army, 
Was near enongh. to “know that’ ‘Abdullah Khan called o e 
uproar could not hear his words. Some years afterwards, i in 1138 H. (785 
