Riyaz al-salatin 112.3.1

112.3.1

To the advice of that wise sage, That light-hearted man (Siraju-d-daulah) was deaf. When next day, Siraju-d-daulah reached Daudpur, tidings came to the effect that the English had set fire to Katwah. At that time Mohanlal reproached Siraju-d-daulah, and said: "You have ruined me, and rendered my children orphans. If you had not removed Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan and Dullab Ram from the Katwah outpost, things would not have taken this turn." In short, on the morning following that day, which was 5th Shawal of the 3rd year of the reign of Emperor Alamgir II, the English army from Palasi (Plassey) on one side, and Siraju-d-daulah from Daudpur on the other encountered each other, and opened the battle with a cannonade. Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan, with his detachment, stood at a distance towards the left from the main army; and although Siraju-d-daulah summoned him to his side, Mir Jafar did not move from his position. In the thick of the fighting, and in the heat of the work of carnage, whilst victory and triumph were visible on the side of the army of Siraju-d-daulah, all of a sudden Mir Madan, commander of the Artillery, fell on being hit with a cannon-ball. At the sight of this, the aspect of Siraju-d-daulah's army changed, and the artillerymen with the corpse of Mir Madan moved into tents. It was now midday, when the people of the tents fled.