Tarikh-i Hindi 17.3

17.3

No sooner had Amiru-l umara Khan-dauran heard that Burhanu-l Mulk had gone, than he also, without making any due preparation, went to the field with a force which amounted, according to some, to seven thousand, and according to others, to twenty thousand horse. Burhanu-l Mulk, a short time after the armies had engaged, was taken prisoner and carried before Nadir Shah. That nobleman, renouncing his dependence upon the will of God, and acting according to the dictates of his own choice, precipitated matters; but Providence discomfited all his plans. After the capture of Burhanu-l Mulk, the army of Nadir Shah surrounded Amiru-l umara on all sides, and began to shoot their arrows and fire their guns, and the battle raged till the close of the day. The Indian warriors, saiyids, shaikhs, Afghans, and Rajputs, so fought with their cruel swords that, had Rustam and Afrasiyab lived to this time, their livers would have become water at the sight of this dreadful battle. The Iranis, dreading the swords of these brave men, left the field, and, firing their guns from a distance and from different quarters, made heaps of the corpses of Indians, who preferred death to flight.