the Battle of Pahhu t* i % 



"Towards morning, fome of Berkhordar Khan's Burranies, having 

 found the body of Biswas Row on his elephant, after taking the ele- 

 phant and jewels, brought the body to Shuj ah-ul-Dowlah, whogavethem 

 two thoufand rupees for it, and ordered that it mould be taken care of. 

 I b r ah i m K h a n G a r de e , though fe verely wounded , hadl>een taken alive by 

 Shuj ah Kouly Khan, oneof Shuj ah-ul-Dowlah's own people? which 

 being reported to his excellency, she ordered him to be carefully conceakelj, 

 and his wounds to be drefTed. 



The Shah next day ordered Shujah-ul-Dowlah to fend the body of 

 -Biswas Row for him to look at, which he accordingly did. The whole 

 camp great and fmall were affembled round the Shah's tent to fee it, and 

 every one i was in admiration of the beauty of its appearance : it was not 

 disfigured by death, but looked rather like a perfon who fleeps : he had 

 one wound with a fword on the back of his neck, and a flight one with an' 

 arrow over his left eye, 'but there was no blood difcoverable on any part 

 ■ of his remaining clothes.. Upon fight of this body, many of the Durranies 

 affembled in a tumultuous manner, faying, "this is the body of the king 

 •.*.' of the. unbelievers, we will have it dried and Huffed to carry back to 

 H Kabul." Accordingly it was carried to the quarter of Berkhordar 

 Khan, and depofited near the tent of Mooty Lol, a Rettery by caft, who 

 was his Dewan. 



As foonas'SHUjAH-UL-DowLAH , h°ar3ofthis, "he waited upon theSHAHy 

 and, joined with the Grand Vizier, reprefented to his majefty " that enmity 

 ■ ei mould be limited to the life of our enemy, and it is always the cuftom 

 " of Hinio/lm, that after a victory, the bodies of the chiefs, of whatever 

 '.'* race or tribe, are given up, that they may receive their proper obfequics, 



