The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 29.3.7

29.3.7

It so happened, fortunately, that in the place where La‘natu-llah had halted, the land was undulating, full of thorn brakes and narrow lanes. The forces, accordingly, were not in compact order. He had sent on most of the experienced men with Rustam Bahadur, and Himmat K., and Salih Beg were amongst the foremost in (the ranks of) error. The army doomed to calamity first of all came in contact with Nahir K. and Shams K., and a notable fight took place. By chance Himmat K. fell in the dust of destruction from a gun-shot wound, and a fight ensued between Salih Beg, and Nanu K., Sayyid Ya‘qub, Sayyid Ghulam Muhammad, and other servants. In the height of the battle the elephant of Sayyid Ghulam Muhammad came and threw him (Salih) from his horse; he fell severely wounded to the ground, and about a hundred of his men were slain. At this moment an elephant which was in the van of the rebel army turned round at the noise of the rockets and the lightning of the guns, and got into a narrow lane, on both sides of which were thorn brakes, and trod down many of the rebels. By the turning back of the elephant the ranks of the enemy were disordered. At this moment Sayyid Dilir K. came fighting from the right wing. La‘natu-llah did not know of the killing of Himmat K. and Salih, and, with the idea of helping them, urged on the steed of ruin.