Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.38.3

78.38.3

At this juncture the author, who was with some of the special troops of the advance-body, said to Asaf, “How are we now in these circumstances to distinguish between friendly and hostile Rajputs?” He answered: “They will experience the whizz of the arrows, be what may —” ‘On whichever side there may be killed, it will be a gain to Islam.’ So we kept firing away, and our aim at such a mountain-like mass of men never missed. And there was even a surer proof [of the righteousness of my conduct in so doing, for] — ‘The heart is the most faithful witness that can testify.’ [And:] ‘The proof of the true Lover is in his sleeve.’ and it became certain that my hand prospered in the matter, and that I attained the reward due to one who fights against infidels. And the Sayyids of Barha, and some youths of renown, performed in this battle such exploits as would have become Rustam, and many slain on both sides strewed the plain. The other division of Rana Kika’s army, under the Purohit [person], charged out of the pass, and meeting Qazi Khan, who was at the entrance of the pass, swept his men before them, and bearing them along broke through his centre. Then the Shaikh-zadas from Sikri all fled at once. And an arrow struck Shaikh Mansur (son-in-law of Shaikh Ibrahim) who was leader of this company, in the seat of honour as he was in the act of flight, and he bore the wound for a considerable time.