Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.11.5

78.11.5

Then Majnun Khan, and Bahadur Khan, who had returned to the thick of the fray from the pursuit of fugitives, fell upon one another, and showed great courage. But an arrow struck the horse of Bahadur Khan, which reared and threw him to the ground, so that he was taken prisoner : — ‘ When the key of victory is not in the hand, One cannot open the door of victory by force.’ At this juncture the Emperor dismounted from his elephant, and got on horse-back, and ordered that the troop of mountain-formed elephants should charge the ranks of the Khan Zaman : and then the fortune of the day began to waver, and the signs of victory began to decide in the Emperor’s favour : — ‘ The sword of kings doth show such marks, The great do such deeds as beseem them, Look at a king’s sword, read not the annals of the past, For, more sooth-saying is his sword — much !’