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could not be tempted into attacking them. At length, when the op- 
posing forces were at the distance of a musket shot from each other, 
‘Abdu-l-ghaffar discharged a volley from all his cannon and without an 
instant’s delay ordered his horsemen to charge, Despite their well- 
known bravery, the Barhah Sayyads gave way, many were killed and 
wounded, the rest fled. Only the three Barhah brothers with Abu-l- 
hasan Khan and Ratn Cand stood fast at the head of four hundred men. 
Tn a short time many of ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar’s soldiers dispersed in search of 
plunder, but he kept together enough of them to surround the Sayyads. 
They now came to close quarters: when Siraju-d-din ‘Ali Khan with 
many others was cut down and killed. A high wind blew up the dust and 
it soon became impossible to distinguish officer from soldier, white from 
black, friend from foe. Suddenly there arose cries that Sayyad ‘Abdu-l- 
ghaffar was slain.! The Barhah Sayyad’s drums and trumpets striking up 
a joyful march, the other side lost heart and turned for flight. In vain 
‘Abdu-l-ghaffar shouted, ‘I am here! I am alive!’ No one listened, 
and the day so nearly won was irremediably lost. ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar 
withdrew his shattered force to Shahzidpur, one march to the rear.? 
When it was too late, Jahandar Shah saw his error and endeavour- 
ed to propitiate ‘Abdu-llah Khan. Promotion from 4,000 zat to 6,000 
zat was offered, with confirmation in the government of Allahabad in 
his own name. The fulsome heaping-up of titles in the letter address- 
ed to ‘Abdu-llah Khan is some indication of Jahandar Shah’s conster- 
nation at the turn affairs had taken. ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar was thrown over- 
board, and the letter to him is couched in terms which might have 
been addressed to a rebel, instead of to a man who had been trying to 
carry out faithfully the orders that he had received. It was too late, 
however, and in vain was this humiliating attitude assumed. ‘Abdu-llah 
Khan, disgusted at the treatment he had received, had already thrown 
in his lot with Farrukhsiyar. 
11. FarRUKHSIYAR LEAVES PATNAH AND REACHES ALLAHABAD. 
After Husain ‘Ali Khan had declared himself, there were other 
important adhesions to Farrukhsiyar’s cause. From the first Ahmad 
Bég, a man long attached to the family, had been particularly active 
and useful in obtaining adherents; he was now made Ghaziu-d-din 
1 It was really his brother who was killed (Siwanih-i-Khizv7, 24). Khizr Khan 
was present. 
@ Khafi Khan, II, 692, and 712, Khizr Khan, 24, Ma’dsiru-l-wmard, III, 182. 
Shahzadpur is on the Ganges about 35 miles N.-W. of Allahabad. 
) Khafi Khan, 11, 714. For the letters of Jahandar Shah see Inshaze Madhu Ram 
(lithographed) pp. 85, 86. This compilation was put together in 1136 H. (1723-4). 
