Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.10.1

61.10.1

Verse. These whom you see are not all human beings, Most of them are tailless oxen and asses. Some of the large mortars were of such a size that it took one or two thousand men, more or less, to drag each one. At this rate of speed they reached the Panjab in the course of seven days. Humayun Padshah in person, in accordance with certain advantageous plans he had formed, advanced as far as Banbhar, at the skirt of the mountain range to the north of the Kashmir frontier, and then returned towards Kabul. A short resume of these events will be given in its proper place if the Most High God so will it.