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up ; but at that moment he was carried off by a musket shot. Shortly 
afterwards, at about one and a half hours after sunrise, a ball struck Kaim 
Khan on the forehead and he fell dead. Dilawar Khan Narkasse,* who 
was seated in the Nawab’s howdah , received him in his arms and wiped oft 
the blood. An attempt was made to carry off the body, but the ltohelas 
pursued and coming up with the elephants cut off the head of the Nawab. 
Others who lost their lives in this battle were Mangal Khan Musenagari, 
Ma’zum Khan Daryabadi, Khizr Khan Panni, Khan Bahadur Khan Khwa- 
ja Sarae, Rustam Khan and Kamal Khan, chelas, and Roshan Imam, son of 
Miyan Fazl Imam. Khan Bahadur Khan was buried at ’Aliganj, the popu¬ 
lar tradition asserting that his elephant carried his body there from the 
field of battle. 
D uring the battle Shuja’t Khan Ghilzai, who had come there from a 
sense of duty though against his own inclination, had stood alone on one 
side. When he was told that Kaim Khan was dead, he wept and exclaimed, 
*• Shall such a leader be slain, and I go back alive to appear before the Bibi 
“ Sahiba; to do so would be more than I can bear.” He went towards the 
leaders of the enemy’s army, intending to give himself up. When he came 
near to Hafiz Rahmat Khan, the men about him said, “ May your mouth be 
filled with dust.” But Hafiz Rahmat Khan, who had got down from his ele¬ 
phant, said, “ Send for a pdl/ei, meanwhile will you get down ?’* Diwan Man 
Rae, who was standing close by, said in Pushtu,f “ Wise men do not kill 
the scorpion and leave his brood ” During this conversation one of the 
Rohelas rode up with his matchlock across his shoulder. He fired it at 
Shuja’t Khan and shot him through the breast. 
After the death of the Nawab the rest of the leaders, some wounded 
and some scatheless, took to flight. They were Nawab Ahmad Khan, who 
was wounded, his son Mahmud Khan, Husain Khan, Fakhr-ud-din Khan, 
Isma’il Khan, Imam Khan, Karim-dad Khan, brothers of Kaim Khan, and 
the chelas, Shamsher Khan, Mukim Khan, Islam Khan. They fled though 
no one cut off their retreat nor was any man pursuing them. After being 
much scattered and after much molestation from the zamindars of that 
part, they re-assembled near the banks of the Ganges. At first a bridge of 
boats was thrown across, but Nawab Ahmad Khan and the others caused it 
to be broken up. Then driving their elephants into the river they forded 
it, while the horsemen and infantry, stripping to their waist-cloths, threw 
themselves into the water and swam across. Out of shame they all slunk 
into the city and sought their homes by bye-ways. When it was noised 
abroad that Nawab Kaim Khan was slain and his army defeated, there 
* A bagh just outside the Kadiri gate of Farrukhabad is called after this man Rani 
Bagh Narkasse. 
t An unlikely language for a Hindu to know, but thus in Hisam-ud-din’s MS. 
