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death, rush out upon their enemies, and fight with 
ferocious desperation until not a Rajpoot remains alive. 
I shall give the description of this effect of despair in 
the emperor's own words. After he had entered the 
citadel, he says, “ In a short time the Pagans, in a 
state of complete nudity, rushed out to attack us, put 
numbers of my people to flight, and leaped over the 
ramparts. Some of our troops were attacked furiously 
and put to the sword. The reason of this desperate 
sally from their works was, that on giving up the place 
for lost, they had put to death the whole of their wives 
and women, and having resolved to perish, had stripped 
themselves naked, in which condition they rushed out 
to the fight, and engaging with ungovernable despe- 
ration, drove our people along the ramparts. Two or 
three hundred Pagans had entered Medini Rao’s house, 
where numbers of them slew each other in the follow- 
ing manner.— One person took his stand with a sword 
in his grasp, while the others, one by one, crowded in 
and stretched out their necks, eager to die. In this 
way many went to hell ; and, by the favour of God, in 
the space of two or three ghurris* I gained this cele- 
brated fort. On the top of a hill, to the north-west 
of Chandery, I erected a tower of heads of the Pagans. 
The words Fateh Dar-ul-Kherb (the conquest of the 
city hostile to the faith) were found to contain the 
date of its conquest." The letters comprising those 
words, form the numerals nine hundred and thirty- 
four, the year of the Hegira in which the fortress of 
Chandery was taken, answering to the year of Christ, 
* A gliurri is about half an hour. 
