Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 14.12.6

14.12.6

and rest assured that you shall see me close to your backs, and at hand to support you. The messenger having returned on a gallop, a moment after the first line was seen to move forwards. The Viceroy immediately moved at the same time; and the action at once became a scene of hand-blows. Dost-mahmed-qhan, and Mir-cazem-qhan, both rivals of glory, and both friends, rode on the same elephant; and desirous of being beforehand with the others, they were pushing eagerly forwards. The engagement now becoming closer and closer, every one engaged the man over against him, and fought hand to hand, in such a manner that the enemy's blood commenced flowing in abundance, and it dropped on the dry ground, like the hair from the eye-brows of the afflicted ones. The two friends pushing eagerly forwards, without looking behind, at last closed with Morad-shir-qhan's elephant, upon which Mir-cazem-qhan was already jumping, having seized the opposite Haodah with one hand. The Afghan General, although wounded by a musquet-ball, had force enough to raise his head, and seizing a sabre or an Afghan knife, he twice struck his enemy, cut some of his fingers away, and made him quit his hold. Whilst he was thus engaged, Dost-mahmed-qhan jumped into the Haodah, and having brought him down by his weight, he cut his head off. Instantly the man who had lost his hold and his fingers, having applied his wounded hand to the Haodah's board, got up again.