The Bāburī Generations (Shaykh Zayn) 2.4

2.4

A small part of the enemy came onwards, but the conquering army instantly dashed forward and carried the whole of that force away before it, as a flood bears away the litter it meets with. Having beaten to the earth the heads of the enemy's chiefs, and made the wails of their half-killed followers to rise unto the skies, the victorious forces drove before them every man and ally of the vanquished force, separating riders from steeds and heads from bodies. The shrill blast of the clarion of destruction, and a scene like that of the day of judgment, full of awful and tremendous strife, now operating together, the meaning of the text, "When the heavens shall be rent," became manifest; and the heads of the leaders of the armies of the time, like shooting-stars falling from the sky, fell like balls in the arena, and the meaning of the words, "The stars shall be scattered," became apparent. The brave chiefs of the victorious army spurred their fleet steeds in pursuit of the enemy, and, coming up with them, they despatched them one by one to the everlasting shades of non-entity and the eternal abyss of annihilation. In fine, the brave heroes of the conquering army having utterly defeated Daud Khán and Haitam Khán, they made prisoners of Haitam Khán and a large number of his followers. Many others were slain, and those who escaped to the camp of Sultán Ibráhím made a fearful outcry.