The Institutes of Akbar 135.5.7

135.5.7

“Nearly 8,000 men, perhaps even more, were killed. Bír Bar also, who had fled from fear of his life, was slain, and entered the row of the dogs in hell, and thus got something for the abominable deeds he had done during his lifetime. During the last night attack, many grandees and persons of renown were killed, as Hasán Khán, and Khwájah ’Arab, paymaster (colonel) of Khán Jahán, and Mullá Sherí, the poet, and many others whose names I cannot specify. The words az Khwájah ’Arab haif express the Táríkh of the defeat, by one less. Hakím Abulfath and Zain Khán, on the 5th Rabí’ulawwal, reached with their defeated troops the fort of Atak. * * * But His Majesty cared for the death of no grandee more than for that of Bír Baṛ. He said, “‘Alas! they could not even get his body out of the pass, that it might have been burned;” but at last, he consoled himself with the thought, that Bír Baṛ was now free and independent of all earthly fetters, and as the rays of the sun were sufficient for him, there was no necessity that he should be cleansed by fire.” New orders were given in the beginning of 995. [Page 356.]