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hillahs were killed or wounded, and tlie attack became fo hard upon' them 

 that but few of the people remained with their chiefs, not above five hun- 

 dred, or at moft a thoufand with each, after the violence of die firft charge. 



Hafiz Rahmut Khan, being indifpofed, was in his palankin, and 

 feeing the defperate fiate of affairs, he ordered his people to carry him to 

 Doondy Khan, that he might expire in his prefence : while on the other 

 hand Doondy Khan was giving orders to fcarch for Hafiz Rahmut 

 Khan: for fo great was the confufion, that no one knew where another 

 was. The two battalions left to oppofe the Shah's flank diviiions, as 

 mentioned above, exerted themfelves very much, and repulfed the JDurra* 

 mes, as often as they attempted to advance. In this action, which lafted 

 three hours, fix of Ibrahim Khan's battalions were almoft entirely ruin- 

 ed, and he himfelf wounded in feveral places, with fpears, and with a 

 mufket-ball. Amajee Guick war, whofe divifion fupported Ibrahim 

 Khan, behaved very well, and was himfelf wounded in feveral places. 



In the centre of the line, the Show with Biswas Row, aud the houfe- 

 hold troops, charged the divifion of the Grand Vizier, The Mahrattas 

 broke through a line of ten thoufand horfe, feven thoufand Perjian mulket- 

 eers, and one thoufand camels with Ziwiburucks upon them, killing and 

 woundingabout three thoufand of them: among the killed was AttaiKhan, 

 the Grand Viziers nephew, who had gained fo much honour by the defeat of 

 Gobind Pundit. The divifion gave ground a little; but the Grand Vizier 

 him fdf -flood firm, with three or four hundred horfe, and fifty Zumburuck 

 camels : he himfelf, in complete armour, difmounted to fight on foot. 



The Navab Shujak-ul-Dowlah whofe divifion was next, could not 

 fee what was going on, on account of the duft, but finding the found of 



