Muntakhab al-lubab 186.4

186.4

* * 'Alam Khan also made his arrangements. * * On his side were Santaji Sindhia, Khanduji Daphariya Senapati, Sankaraji Malhar, Kanuji, and other Mahrattas of repute, on the part of Raja Sahu, with seventeen or eighteen thousand men, who all called themselves faithful adherents of Husain 'Ali Khan. * * On the 6th Shawwal, 1132 A.H. (1st August, 1720 A.D.), the battle was fought. * * 'Alam 'Ali Khan received a severe wound, but for all that he kept the field. * * The elephant which carried him, unable to bear any longer the arrows and sword-cuts that he received, turned tail. 'Alam 'Ali Khan, dripping with blood from his wounds, turned his face towards the army of Nizamu-l Mulk, and cried out that the elephant had turned his back, but he had not. All his own arrows were exhausted, but such of the enemy's arrows as struck his face, or his body, or his howda, he quickly pulled out and returned. He received so many wounds in succession that he sank under them, and sacrificed his life for his uncles. He was only twenty-two years of age, but he was distinguished by all the determination and bravery of the Barha Saiyids. Seventeen or eighteen other men of renown, riders upon elephants, fell in the battle, with a large number of inferior men. After the defeat Amin Khan, * * and other men of standing came over and joined Nizamu-l Mulk. Sankaraji, one of Raja Sahu's ministers (madar), was wounded and made prisoner.