The Nāṣirī Generations 170.4.4

170.4.4

In the morning, notwithstanding that only a few horsemen of the centre division and his own slaves remained with him, the Sultan drew out his ranks and commenced the engagement The army of the unbelievers, having formed a circle round about the troops of Islam, came on, and, in despite of the remonstrance his slaves were using that of the army of Islam only a small number of men remained, and that it was advisable to retreat, the Sultan-i-Ghazi still continued to maintain his position, until, of cavalry and his own personal slaves, only about one hundred horsemen remained, who, with a few elephants, the Turkish slaves, and the Ghurian leaders, who were the Sultan’s grandees, in front of his charger’s head, were hurling back the infidels, devoting their lives, and obtaining martyrdom. Trustworthy persons have related on this wise, that the Sultan-i-Ghazi stood his ground so persistently that his august state canopy, from the wounds of the arrows of the infidel Mughals [and the arrows remaining sticking fast], became like unto a porcupine, and he would not turn his head round in any direction, until one of his Turkish slaves, whose name was Ayyah Juki, came up, seized the Sultan’s bridle, and dragged him away towards the fortress of Andkhud, and conducted him thither, and brought him within the walls of that fortress.