Tarikh-i Hindi 15.3

15.3

The Muhammadan army pursued them, made heaps of the slain, and kept the battle raging for the distance of thirty-five kos. A body of the invaders were overtaken near the tank of I'timadpur, and three chiefs with about a thousand men were taken prisoners. Those who escaped the sword crossed the river Jumna. Many of them missed the ford, and were drowned in the river of eternity, but most of them escaped and joined their countrymen. When the prisoners were brought before Burhanu-l Mulk, he gave each man a rupee for his expenses, and set them all at liberty; but he kept the three chiefs loaded with chains. After this, he returned towards Shah-Jahanabad, from which place Amiru-l umara Khan-dauran was advancing with a body of twenty-five thousand horse, some guns, and many elephants, accompanied by Muhammad Khan Bangash Ghazanfar Jang, at the head of twelve thousand horse. The army, which in the beginning of Zi-l ka'da had been ordered by His Majesty to proceed against the enemy, met Burhanu-l Mulk near the city of Mathura, in the beginning of the month of Zi-l hijja. One day, the Amiru-l umara invited Burhanu-l Mulk to his tents, and prepared a feast for his reception. In the midst of the banquet it was suddenly reported that the enemy's army, having marched through the town of Fathpur, and leaving Dig, the native land of Badna Jat, on the right, had arrived at Dehli.