The Memoirs of Bābur 933.7.2

933.7.2

Our high-born brother[2087] Muḥammad Sl. Mīrzā, and the representative of royal dignity, `Ādil Sulṯān, and the trusted in the State, the strengthener of the Faith, `Abdu'l-`azīz, the Master of the Horse, and the glory of the Faith, Qūtlūq-qadam _qarāwal_, and the meteor of the Faith, Muḥammad `Alī _Jang-jang_, and the pillar of royal retainers, Shāh Ḥusain _yāragī Mughūl Ghānchī_(?) stretched out the arm to fight and stood firm. To support them we sent the _Dastūr_, the highest of wazīrs, Khwāja [Sidenote: Fol. 322b.] Kamālu'd-dīn Ḥusain with a body of _dīwānīs_.[2088] Every holy warrior was eager to show his zeal, entering the fight with desperate joy as if approving the verse, _Say, Do you expect any other should befall us than one of the two most excellent things, victory or martyrdom?_[2089] and, with display of life-devotion, uplifted the standard of life-sacrifice. As the conflict and battle lasted long, an imperative order was issued that the special royal corps (_tābīnān-i-khāṣa-i-pādshāhī_)[2090] who, heroes of one hue,[2091] were standing, like tigers enchained, behind the carts,[2092] should go out on the right and the left of the centre,[2093] leaving the matchlockmen's post in-between, and join battle on both sides. As the True Dawn emerges from its cleft in the horizon, so they emerged from behind the carts; they poured a ruddy crepuscule of the blood of those ill-fated pagans on the nadir of the Heavens, that battle-field;