Riyaz al-salatin 105.1.7

105.1.7

When the battle-field was arranged, and the cavalry and infantry, like the men at chess, were set in their proper places, Rahim Shah made a hostile flank movement, and fought gallantly. A number of Afghan troopers clad in cuirass and armed with daggers, by a desperate sally, galloped right through the ranks of the Imperialists, reached the centre, and sought for the Prince, shouting out "Azimu-sh-Shan." Attacking the Royal elephant with their horses, they prepared to give the final checkmate. The Imperial cavalry and infantry, unable to withstand the onslaughts of those villains, left the Prince in a corner before the enemy and fled. Thus the thread of the arrangement of the Imperial army was snapped. Rahim Shah, breaking through the entrenchments, attacked the Prince's elephant. At this crisis, and at the sight of this impudent daring, Hamid Khan Quraishi, who was standing at a short distance, spurred on his charger like an arrow shot from its bow, attacked Rahim Shah, and said, "Villain, I am Azimu-sh-Shan." Promptly discharging a rock-piercing arrow from his quiver, he pierced Rahim Shah on the chest. He pulled out his bow from its string And drew out his Khadang arrow from its quiver. He joined the arrow-notch to the ass's leather, And aimed at that giant. When the arrow-notch was shot to take aim, It pierced through the breast of that fighting demon, Piercing right through his breast, It figured like the balance from weight.