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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
driven from the field with immense loss. The strug- 
gle continued for upwards of six hours, and ended 
in the discomfiture of the enemy, who left eight sul- 
tans upon the field among the slain, besides many 
other officers of distinction. This was an event of 
heartfelt triumph to Baber, who had been a great 
sufferer by the incursions of those Tartars : they had 
driven him from his kingdom, and obliged him to 
seek in foreign conquests the establishment of a more 
lasting empire than he had inherited from his own 
family. As was usual upon occasions where suc- 
cess had attended either his own arms or those of 
his allies, he entered the Jumma Musjid, and of- 
fered up his thanksgiving for the advantage so signally 
obtained over his old and inveterate enemies. 
Some idea may be formed of the grandeur of these 
places of Mohammedan worship in India by the ac- 
companying engraving, in which the near building is 
the Jumma Musjid at old Delhi, once the principal 
mosque in that magnificent capital. It is a very 
large and massy pile, built with prodigious strength, 
and must have been capable of containing a vast con- 
course of worshippers. It is flanked by towers, which 
project from the angles of the building, and contain 
chambers originally designed for the functionaries of 
the sanctuary. These are ornamented with a severe 
but appropriate taste, exhibiting a singular nicety of 
proportion, and harmonising admirably with the main 
structure, which is plain, and unadorned. The body 
of the edifice is square, sloping upward from the foun- 
dation, after the Afghan style, and surmounted by a 
capacious dome elegantly embellished, and admitting 
