Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.11.6

78.11.6

(P. 97). And an elephant, Hiranand by name, on the side of the imperial army, charged an elephant, named Oudya, on the enemy’s side, and came with such force against the head of that animal, that it felled it to the ground. And midst this hubbub and confusion, an arrow struck the horse of the Khan Zaman ; and, while he was in the act of pulling it out, another arrow struck it, and it reared up and the Khan Zaman fell to the ground. At this moment an elephant-driver, riding on an elephant named Narsingh, came up; and, although the Khan Zaman kept saying to him : ‘ I am a great leader, take me alive to the king, and you will get a great reward,’ the elephant-driver would not listen, but drove on his elephant, which crushed him with its trunk and feet, and ground his bones to powder, and made his body like a bag full of chess-pieces : — ‘ The huge-form of elephants dashed [him] crushed to the ground, An earthquake threw [him] on the surface of the earth : Through all these tusks, which were weighers-out of evil, The face of the ground became a [strewed] chess-board.’