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arm. He was with difficulty taken from the field by Khwajah 'Abdurrah- 

 man, son of 'Abdul 'Aziz Naqshbandi, as the enemies were just disabling the 

 horse. Zulfaqar drove away the enemies who had attacked him, and re- 

 treated to Sa'id Khan, and soon after, Sa'dullah and 'Abdullah arrived like- 

 wise. Sa'id Khan reached Eupar next day, cut down the jungle for the 

 encampment, cut ditches, and set up hedges, to guard against night-attacks. 

 The enemies now collected in large numbers round about, and continued to 

 erect fences and throw up obstacles of all sorts. Sa'id advanced slowly cut- 

 ting down the jungle ; and on the 21st Sha'ban [15th November], the 

 vanguard under Najabat Khan arrived at a pass in the neighbourhood of a 

 hostile camp near Raja Basil's garden. The enemies were at once attacked, 

 from one side by Zulfaqar with the Imperial artillery, and from the other by 

 Nazar Bahadur Khweshagi, Shaikh Farid, Akbar Quli Sultan Gakk'har, 

 Sarandaz Khan, and Raja Man. A number of men of Najabat Khan and 

 Raja Man put boards on their heads instead of shields, rushed forward, 

 and set fire to a wall made of poles and planks. Several were killed on 

 both sides. 



In the night before the 29th Sha'ban [22nd to 23rd November], Raja 

 Man sent about one hundred foot of his own native place to surprise Fort 

 C h h a t (°^-). They killed many enemies, who had left the Fort to oppose 

 them, among them the commander. A portion of them occupied the Fort, 

 the rest returned to Raja Man. 



During the day, a bastion (jburj) of Fort Nurpur, which Khan Jahan 

 besieged, was blown up. This happened as follows. Zulfi Ahunzan and 

 Aqa Hasan Rumi had laid seven mines in various directions. Sis of them 

 had been discovered by the besieged, who filled them with water. The 

 seventh had been made from the trenches of Khan Jahan's men, and had 

 been successfully carried forward to the bastion, a space of three yards only 

 remaining undug to the very foundation of the bastion. Khan Jahan's son 

 and his men, from fear that the besieged would detect the last mine too, 

 filled it with powder, and sent word to Khan Jahan that the mine was 

 ready. Khan Jahan, therefore, gave in the afternoon orders to the men of 

 several trenches to be ready for an assault, and to fire the mine. But as 

 the mine was incomplete, one side only of the bastion flew up, whilst the other 

 side sank to the ground. But the besieged had been cunning enough to erect 

 behind each bastion a wall, which was joined with both ends to the outer 

 wall of the Fort. This wall behind the blown up bastion remained unin- 

 jured, and no actual breach was effected ; and Sayyid Lutf 'All and Jalaluddin 

 Mahmud, who had rushed forward with Khan Jahan's men, found the way 

 closed, and called to the hilddrs to throw clown the wall. The besieged think- 

 ing that the Imperialists had succeeded in effecting a breach, retreated to the 

 inner Fort, keeping up a destructive fire on Lutf 'AH, who was shot in the 



