194 LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
gels of hell. On whatever side of the armies of the 
Islam a person went, on every hand he found men of 
distinction lying slain ; and the illustrious camp,, wher- 
ever it has moved after the fugitives, could nowhere 
find a spot in which to plant a foot, in consequence of 
the number of distinguished men lying mangled.”* 
After this decisive conflict, Baber added to the im- 
perial titles that of Ghazy, which signifies f victo- 
rious in a holy war’ ; and to perpetuate the memory 
of this signal victory, he commanded a tower of skulls 
to be erected upon a small hill within sight of his 
camp. The false prophet who had predicted his de- 
feat came to congratulate him upon his success, when 
the conqueror, after having severely censured him for 
the impositions he had practised upon his superstitious 
soldiers, dismissed him with a present of about three 
hundred and fifty pounds sterling, in consideration that 
he had formerly been a domestic of the royal esta- 
blishment. 
Hussan Khan Mewatty, governor of Mewat, had 
joined in the late confederacy against the new sove- 
reign, who in consequence determined to drive him 
from his dominions. His ancestors had governed 
Mewat in uninterrupted succession for nearly two 
hundred years. The country had never been subdued 
during the dominion of this family. They had yield- 
ed but a nominal submission to the kings of Delhi. 
Baber had shown signal marks of favour to Hussan 
Khan Mewatty, who repaid them with the basest in- 
gratitude, not only joining his enemies, but using the 
* Memoirs, page 367. 
