The Memoirs of Bābur 932.6.1

932.6.1

When the incitement to battle had come, the Sun was spear-high; till mid-day fighting had been in full force; noon passed, the foe was crushed in defeat, our friends rejoicing and gay. By God's mercy and kindness, this difficult affair was made easy for us! In one half-day, that armed mass was laid upon the earth. Five or six thousand men were killed in one place close to Ibrāhīm. Our estimate of the other dead, lying all over the field, was 15 to 16,000, but it came to be known, later in Āgra from the statements of Hindūstānīs, that 40 or 50,000 may have died in that battle.[1678] The foe defeated, pursuit and unhorsing of fugitives began. Our men brought in amīrs of all ranks and the chiefs they captured; _mahauts_ made offering of herd after herd of elephants. Ibrāhīm was thought to have fled; therefore, while pursuing [Sidenote: Fol. 267b.] the enemy, we told off Qismatāī Mīrzā, Bābā _chuhra_ and Būjka of the _khaṣa-tābīn_[1679] to lead swift pursuit to Āgra and try to take him. We passed through his camp, looked into his own enclosure (_sarācha_) and quarters, and dismounted on the bank of standing-water (_qarā-sū_). It was the Afternoon Prayer when Khalīfa's younger brother-in-law T̤āhir Tībrī[1680] who had found Ibrāhīm's body in a heap of dead, brought in his head. (_x. Detachments sent to occupy Dihlī and Āgra._)