Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.3.3

19.3.3

But these troops who had already been impressed by Qhadum-hassen-qhan's letters, forgot everything but their own safety; on descrying the enemy's march they wavered, and without being pushed to it by actually feeling the impression of either sabre or spear, they quitted their posts all at once, and fled every one the nearest way to his home. Hazyr-aaly-qhan, without being desmayed by this general desertion, found means to secure his flight. He fled and disappeared, without it being possible to know where, and how. To all appearance, he went towards the mountainous tracts in the north of Purania, which although contiguous to Bengal, are independent from it; and he remained concealed there until he might hear of an opportunity of emerging from thence; and this happened when another revolution was effected in favour of Mir-cassem-aaly-djah. Then he shewed himself again, but was seized and confined for a length of time, without being ever heard of afterwards. After so easy and so complete a victory, Qhadum-hassen-qhan made his entry in Purania, where he took up his abode in the palace built by Sayd-ahmed-qhan; and from thence he proclaimed that whoever had concealed Atchul-sing, should produce him immediately. But there was little need of any vigorous search; for the man himself having concluded that as a pen-man and one that had acted only on a second-hand, there was little danger for him in being apprehended, quietly suffered himself to be taken;