1869.] The Nineteenth Booh of the Gestes of Prithiraj. 155 



Couplets. 



39. At the shouts of the monarch and his host ; 

 The battle was very fierce, 



[An obscure line] (28) 

 Neither yielded, neither conquered. 

 Verses. 



40. None gave way, none conquered, 

 Heroes and warriors stayed or fell, 

 On the earth they fell in numbers. 

 Making a very terrible fight. 

 Here were trunks, there heads ; 

 There hands and feet scattered wide ; 

 Here shoulders cleft by the sword, 



There heads and breasts cut open at a blow. [hoofs. 



Here skulls (with their) teeth and foreheads crushed by horse 



Elephants' trunks and bodies likewise : 



When the Rana of the Hindus, with sun-like face, 



The Chauhan, grasped his sword. 



Bhujangi metre. 



41. The Chahuwan, the Hindu Rana grasped his sword, 

 Rushed on the troop of elephants like a lion in his wrath, 

 Severing heads and bodies, cleaving brows in twain, 



All the chiefs and heroes utter loud shouts. 

 Shrieking and screaming in confusion they fled, 

 Abandoning pride and shame, and begging for mercy. 

 The elephants fled blindly, the Chahuwan overthrew them. (29) 

 Surrounding them on all sides he turned them. 

 The sun went down, (3) around was dark night, 

 (The army) went searching (for the road) nothing was visible ; 

 Leaning his head on his bow stood Prithiraj the King, 

 Then he seized the Shah, who risked death and disgrace, 

 He took him away quickly having routed his army. 

 There fell chiefs five hundred there in the field outright. (31) 

 Rajputs fifty were disabled in the fight, 



The song of victory was sung with flags and with beating of 

 Couplets. [drums. 



42. Victory was to Prithiraj ; 



