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Qarra Bahadur were captured. The rest of the army came to Bahram- 
galla. When Mirza Haidar heard of this he was sorely vexed and ordered 
all the silver vessels to be broken and the coin now current in Kashmir 
was struck from them. Jahangir Makari at this time got into favour 
and the estates of Husain Makari were bestowed upon him. Trades¬ 
people had horses and outfits given to them and were made soldiers. 
After this news came that Mulla Abdullah, hearing of the exodus of the 
Kashmiris, was coming to Kashmir. When he got near to Baramula 
the Kashmiris crowded on him and slew him. Khwajah Qasim was 
slain in little Tibet. Muhammad Nazir was imprisoned in Rajaori. 
The Kashmiris leaving Bahramgalla came to Hambarapur. Mirza 
Haidar was thus forced to fight them and he came to Indarkot. He had 
with him only a thousand men. With him were Mughal nobles who had 
700 men more. The whole took up a position in Shahab-ud-Dinpur. 
Daulat Chakk and Ghazi Khan Chakk went to Hambarapur to help Idi 
Zina and coming from that place assembled in Khanpur. Mirza Haidar 
took up his position in the plain of Khalidgarli near Srinagar. Fath 
Chakk, whose father had been slain by the Mughals, Khwajah Bahrain 
brought, with 3,000 men to Indarkot to revenge his father’s death. 
They burned all the palaces of Mirza Haidar in the Safa gardens. 
When Mirza Haidar heard of this he said, “ I have not brought this from 
Kashgar that I might by the grace of God, again build it.” Jai All in 
revenge burnt the palaces of Zain-ul-’Abidin in Suryapur, but this did not 
please Mirza Haidar and the army burnt the palaces of I'di Zina and 
Nauroz Chakk in Srinagar. Mirza Haidar himself took up a position 
in Khanpur in which place was a willow tree under which 22 horsemen 
could stand. If one branch of this tree were shaken the whole tree was 
moved. At last the Kashmiris came from Khanpur and took up a posi¬ 
tion at Adnipur and not more than a distance of two kos remained between 
the two armies. Mirza Haidar determined to make a night attack on the 
enemy. He first of all made his own younger brother Mirza Abdur 
Rahman his heir-apparent and inaugurated him, then getting his men 
into order he prepared for the night attack. It so happened that the 
night was very cloudy and when he got to the tent of Khwajah Haji 
who was the soul of the rebellion and the agent of the Mirza, the darkness 
hid everything. Shah Nazar a cuirassier of Mirza Haidar said, “ When 
I shot an arrow the voice of the Mirza fell on my ear, saying, ‘ you are at 
fault.’ I then knew that the arrow had accidentally struck the Mirza.” 
It is also said that a butcher shot him in the thigh • with an arrow. 
In another tradition it is stated that Ivamal Kuka killed him with a 
sword. But except an arrow-wound in his heart no other thing was 
visible. In reality this is the sum of the traditions. When mornino* 
