The Rashīdī History 243.12

243.12

Such was the state of the centre. On the right Shir Khan advanced in battle array; but before an arrow was discharged, the camp followers fled like chaff before the wind, and breaking the line, they all pressed towards the centre. The ghulams whom the commanders had sent to the front, rushed to the lines of chariots, and the whole array was broken: the Mir was separated from his men, and the men from the Mir. While the centre was thus thrown into disorder, all the fugitives from the right bore down upon it. So before the enemy had discharged an arrow, the whole army was scattered and defeated. I had estimated the Chaghatai army as numbering 40,000 men, excluding the camp-followers [ghulam] and workmen [shagird pisha]. They fled before 10,000 men, and Shir Khan gained a victory, while the Chaghatai were defeated on this battle-field, where not a man, either friend or foe, was wounded. Not a gun was fired and the chariots [gardun] were useless.