Tarikh-i Hindi 16.1

16.1

In the commencement of this year 8000 horse of the Rathor Rajputs, among whom were eighteen chiefs, the relatives of Raja Dhankal Singh, assembled on some pretence in the city of Sambhar. Bharat Singh, their leader, by whose hands Shaikh Illahyar Khan of Bilgram had been slain in the battle which was fought between Sarbuland Khan and Dhankal Singh, openly drank wine on a Friday in the Masjid of Sambhar, and prohibited the muazzin from calling to prayer. It happened that Hayatu-llah Khan, son of Jamalu-llah Khan, the governor of the place, with a few men, went to them in the evening. After some verbal altercation, the matter ended in a regular fight. That lion of the field of battle thrust Bharat Singh into the well of destruction with a stroke of his lance. The market of the angel of death was thronged through the use of rockets, arrows, and lances. Eighteen chiefs of the opponents were slain, and the rest fled away. Three followers of the Khan, who were Saiyids of Narnaul, obtained the degree of martyrdom, and were interred near the tomb of Saiyid Husain Khan.