Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.2.1

78.2.1

“ First they carried off every one from house and home, All money-and chattels, whether hidden or exposed : They robbed the crown from the pulpit, as well as the turban from the preacher, They tore the cupola from the mosque, as well as the lamp from the Minaret.” Then, while his men were in confusion, and left far behind him, Bāz Bahādur Khān, who fled together with some of the rulers of that country, in conjunction with other zamīndārs made an attack on Pīr Muhammad Khān. He could not sustain the attack, but betook himself towards Māndū. In the course of his retreat, in company with all his Amīrs, he rode his horse into the river Narbadah. It chanced that a string of camels which were passing at the time, attacked his horse, and he went by water to fire. And so the sighs of the orphans, and weak, and captives were his ruin : — “ Fear thou the arrow-shower of the weak in the ambush of night, For, the more he sighs through weakness, the stronger is the blow of his dart. “When you have cast Bīzhan into the well, do not sleep like Afrāsyāb, For Rustam is in ambush, and a crocodile is under his cuirass.”