Muntakhab al-lubab 76.4

76.4

In this action Khan-Jahan had not more than ten or eleven thousand horse, and Khalilu-llah Khan had more than thirty thousand. * * Khan-Jahan's army was so outnumbered and overpowered that all chance of escape seemed difficult, and, the enemy's forces came on every moment with greater strength. * * One of the enemy's chiefs pressed forward, with a loud cry, to the elephant of Khan-Jahan, with the intention of hurling a javelin at him. Khan-Jahan encountered him, shouting out, "I am a nobleman," and, allowing him no time to throw his javelin, Khan-Jahan drew his bow to his ear, and pierced his assailant with an arrow, so that he fell headlong from his horse. The royal army was still very hard pressed, intelligence constantly came in from the front and rear that the enemy were in overwhelming force, and the only course left for the army of Khan-Jahan was to retreat. At this juncture the driver of an elephant belonging to Raja Ram Singh placed a heavy chain in its mouth, and made it charge upon the enemy's advanced force. * * Wherever the elephant charged, the noise of the chain and the blows of his trunk struck terror into the enemy. The horses of two or three officers took fright, and threw their riders. Thus the army of the enemy was put to flight, and Khan-Jahan celebrated his victory, and pitched his camp on the field of battle. Many horses, elephants, and guns fell into his hands.