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Meanwhile Nawab Mansur 'Ali Khan Sahibzadah, 'Abdullah Khan 

 Warakzai and others had received no notification of the Nawab's departure, 

 their batteries being to the left of the Nawab's position. When a rumour 

 of the flight of the Nawab was brought, Mansur 'Ali Khan got up and 

 mounted his horse, followed by Hisam-ud-din, Rasul Khan and others. He 

 sent for his jama'dars and said to them that the Nawab had sent for him, 

 that he was going to see what orders there were. He then went away. As 

 a long time passed without his returning, Raiul Khan said to Hisam-ud- 

 din " I expect the Nawab has gone," and he sent a man to make encpiiries. 

 This messenger did not return. While still waiting for his coming, the 

 night was spent and day began to break. When the rumour of the Nawab's 

 flight spread, a panic arose, and each man began to look out for his own 

 safety ; some hid in the brushwood (jhdo) in the river bed ; others rode 

 their horses into the stream, thinking to escape by swimming, but they 

 were all drowned. The events of that day, Hisam-ud-din says, cannot be 

 described, he can only recount what befell himself. 



When day arose Hisam-ud-din, Rasul Khan, Ghairat Khan and 'Ab- 

 dullah Khan resolved to sell their lives dearly, and all by themselves issued 

 from their battery. They saw the Mahrattas stripping of their clothes, 

 one by one, all those fugitives, who had neither got clear off nor had been 

 drowned in the river. A group of these Mahrattas came towards Hisam- 

 ud-din and his companions and surrounded them. In the party were three 

 horsemen, Hisam-ud-din, Rasul Khan, and 'Abdullah Khan Warakzai, all 

 the rest were on foot. These latter on seeing the enemy began to divest 

 themselves of their clothes and threw them down. Ghairat KhanBangash, 

 however, drew his sword and ran at the enemy, and after some passes with 

 his sword, was wounded and fell. Some of the enemy recognizing him, 

 made him a prisoner. The same happened to Easu.1 Khan and 'Abdullah 

 Khan. Hisam-ud-din with a few men remained standing on one side. 

 Sarfaraz Khan Dilazak, a native of Dholpur-Shikarband, was holding 

 Hisam-ud-din's horse. He was a great friend and protector of Sayyads. 

 Hisam-ud-din said to him, " You see what has happened to the others, what 

 shall we do ?" He replied that, when he had taken service, he held it to be 

 part of his duty to give his head for him he served ; now that the time had 

 come, to shirk the blow would be a coward's deed. Then calling to his three 

 brothers who stood near, they all four, sword in hand, rushed upon the foe. 

 After a fierce hand-to-hand struggle, they were overcome and slain. Then 

 the enemy's horsemen rode up and surrounded Hisam-ud-din. Standing at 

 a little distance they cried out to him. " Take your hand from your bridle, 

 " if you want to save your life." He answered that with his horse went 

 his life and his head, should he fall, the horse was theirs. On this they said 



