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lying about, however, that by bolding on to bis saddle and stooping over, 
be plucked up eighteen in one bandful. About midday the Nawab’s ele¬ 
phant rushed at and struck that of Mangal Khan Musenagari,* and ran 
after it for some little distance. Chattarsal’s army thought that Muham¬ 
mad Ivhan had taken to flight. With one voice all the Bundelas shouted 
out that the Bangash had fled. Hearing this outcry, Muhammad Khan 
turned round with his face to the back of the howdah, calling out as was 
his custom “ Bahaduro, yihi waJct hahdduri ha haiB He asked the elephant- 
driver what this fighting meant, it had never occurred before, when the 
man explained that intending to fight Chattarsal’s elephant, he had drugged 
his own. The elephant was again turned to face the enemy. 
Muhammad Khan, armed to the teeth, was standing up to his full 
height in his howdah, the sides of which were some three feet high. 
Suddenly they see bearing down upon them two Bundela horsemen with 
spears in their hands, and as they come they avoid all encounter. When 
stopped by any of Muhammad Khan’s men, they reply, “ We have some¬ 
thing to tell your Nawab.” At length they came close to Muhammad 
Khan’s elephant. There they halted, and one of them got out a small bag 
from his waist-cloth and eat some tobacco. Then grasping his spear firmly 
in his hand, he shouted out “ Bangash, keep a sharp look out, I am at you.” 
He so impelled his horse, that it placed its two forefeet on the trunk of the 
Nawab’s elephant; he then made a thrust with his spear. The Nawab avoid¬ 
ed the blow, and shot an arrow at the man with such force, that he fell 
dead from his horse. The horse was killed by the elejdrant.t The second 
horseman did as the first, and was killed in the same way. The Nawab 
exclaimed to Mangal Khan Musenagari—“ How brave must these Bunde¬ 
las be.” 
Bhure Khan, chela, now placed himself at the head of a number of brave 
Pathans and penetrated the enemy’s army, intending to kill Chattarsal. 
Bhure Khan lost his own life instead, and the Nawab’s son, Akbar Khan, 
received a bullet wound. Por the loss of Bhure Khan the Nawab wept, 
and for many days after the battle wore orange-coloured clothes in sign of 
mourning, saying, “ What Bhure said was true, he said he would die be¬ 
fore me.” 
About two hours to sunset the elephants of Nawab Muhammad Khan 
and Rajah Chattarsal met face to face. Chattarsal seated under an iron- 
* Musenagar, parganah Bhognipur, Cawnpur district, on the left bank of the 
Jamna some 13 or 14 miles east of Kalpi. 
f The tradition is that the Nawab’s arrows bore a head of several fingers’ breadth, 
a shot from his how usually killed any one hit. Up to Shaukat Jang’s time (1813— 
1823) there were several of these arrows in the Armoury, and Chaudhri ’Alim-ullah, 
bearer of the Fish standard, had several of them. 
