Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 4.1.1

4.1.1

cavalry. Aazym-ush-shan was himself encamped there, and the combat having grown warmer, he found himself overpowered, and he stopped short to see what Sultan Muazzem's fortune would operate in his behalf. This Prince, who was then on a hunting party, no sooner heard of the enemy's being so near, than he flew to his son's assistance, bringing with him his eldest Muczzeddin, and his best generals with their troops; the combat was growing warm, when an event happened, which by turning the fortune of the day, was taken for a token of approbation from providence on his enterprise. At once there arose such a violent wind, as seemed to give the combatants an idea of the dreadful Ser-Ser that buried the whole tribe of Aad under the sands of Arabia; it blew on the back of Sultan-Muazzem, and full in the face of Aazem-shah's army. This last Prince having given the command of his left wing to his eldest son, Bidar-baqht, and that of his left, to his second son, Vala-dja, was marching to the enemy, having his youngest son, Aly-tebar, then a child, upon his elephant. But he had left Assed-khan, his Vezir, at the camp of Gvaliar with a body of troops. As he was pushing forwards with ardour, Zulficar-khan, his generalissimo, who had also been generalissimo under Aoreng-zib, represented to him: "That as the day was so much spent, and such a violent tempest blew right in his face;