Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.1.5

61.1.5

and eventually by the advice of Mír Saiyyid Rafí'u-d-Dín Safawí of Íj, which was given the title of Muqaddasa (Sacred) by Sikandar Lodí, broke his word, and caused Púranmal together with his family and children to be trampled to death by elephants. Not a single man of those turbulent and rebellious Hindus, who were near ten thousand souls, escaped in that battle. Their women and men either became food for the edge (jauhar) of the sword or fed the flames of the fire called jauhar, a well-known word in the Hindí language. This chronicle, from that day forward, remained as a record upon the pages of Time, may God be merciful to its author. This event occurred in the year 950 H., and after some time he girded up his loins for a holy war to uproot the pestilent infidels of the country of Márwár, and led a vast army against Rái Máldeo the leader of the Rais of Hindūstān, who held sway over the country of Nāgor and Jodhpur, and was a powerful opponent of the Muslims, and inasmuch as one of the maxims of Shīr Shāh, from which he never departed, was to throw up an entrenched position round his army, no matter how few the enemy might be, as soon as Māldeo arrived in the vicinity of Ajmīr with fifty thousand picked cavalry trained and experienced in war, intent upon slaying or being slain, and confronted Shīr Shāh, finding it impossible to make trenches and ramparts because of the sandy soil, held a conference with his experienced and veteran Amīrs.