Tarikh-i Hindi 15.2

15.2

After this, in the beginning of Zi-l hijja of the same year, the enemy's army having crossed the river Jumna, near the village of Rapri, besieged the fort of Shukohabad. Lalji Khatri, the governor of that place, presented him one hundred and fifty thousand rupees and an elephant, and thus saved the town. Marching thence, the invaders burnt down Firozabad and I'timadpur, which is five kos from the capital, Agra, and plundered them, and then proceeded towards Jalesar. All of a sudden, about dawn, Burhanu-l Mulk drew near, having marched from Etawa in pursuit of the enemy. At first, his nephew Abu-l Mansur Khan Safdar Jang, with twelve thousand horse, came in sight, when the Mahrattas, with their usual confidence, considering his force to be small, surrounded him on all sides. Abu-l Mansur Khan slowly retreated, fighting all the way, till he reached the spot occupied by Burhanu-l Mulk, at the head of fifty thousand horse. When the Mahrattas approached near, he suddenly charged the army of those rebels with his cavalry, like a wolf falling upon sheep, or a tiger upon a deer. Thus those vagabonds, seized by the hand of death, were obliged to run away in alarm towards the forest.