Muntakhab al-tawarikh 56.2.7
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 56.2.7
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56.2.7
Babar Padishah also, having arrayed his army with all the pomp and circumstance of war, and showing a firm unbroken front, gave orders detailing from the left wing Amir Qara Qurchi and Amir Shaikh 'Ali, with certain other Amirs, and from the right wing, Wali Qizil and Baba Qashqah, with the whole force of Mughuls, to form two parties and attack the enemy in the rear, while the Amirs of the right and left wings in a body, and from the picked troops, Amir Muhammad Qokultash, and Amir Yunis 'Ali, and Amir Shah Mansur Birlas, with other famous Amirs, should lead the front attack; and since the Afghans [were specially observant of the right wing, Amir 'Abdu-l-'aziz, who was with the reserve, was ordered by king Babar to reinforce the right wing], and when he got within bowshot of the enemy, the bodies of the enemies took to themselves wings, and the bird of the soul of many of them took flight from the cage of the body, while the wings of others were clipped by the shears of the two-edged sword. Verse. So vast was the river of blood which flowed on that battle field That the feet of the warriors could not stand against its flood; The breeze which blew from that battle field at morning time Brought to the nostrils the odour of the heart's blood.