Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 4.5.3

4.5.3

and at any rate, Daud-khan-peni, who commands throughout all the Decan, is your servant. Let us retire to Bengal, which is a place of safety; and there, after having dried your feathers, and trimmed your wings, you may take your party, and come again, and act as occasion shall direct." "All that is very fine," replied the Prince; "but what has Dara-Shecoh done after his defeat? And did all that avail to Shudjah? If I am yet destined to reign, the scriptural sentence — Many a time did a small number prevail over a multitude — shall be verified in my person; nor is victory and success so far distant from us yet." To all this Amin-ed-döula rejoined, that he had no more than twenty troopers with him, and that everyone else was gone away. "Very well," said the Prince, coolly, "let me have one-half of these twenty, that I may with them rush on that Muez-zeddin; and with the other ten, do you rush on that wretched of Qhodjistah-aqhtar." The general was near losing his wits on hearing these words, and the Prince was yet speaking, when Qhoadja-hassen (since Qhandoüran) was heard to cry from behind : "General, I am going to Bengal. Believe me, let "us go together." "Never," answered the General; "and so "long as there is breath in Azim-ush-shan, I will not part with "him." He had hardly said this, when a large cannon-ball having struck the elephant full on the root of the proboscis, made him run mad.