The Nāṣirī Generations 263.2.3

263.2.3

and, during that night, the Mughals destroyed the whole of the 12,000 Turkmans, and Ikhtiyar-ud-Din is also said to have been killed. Now if the former only numbered 400 men, each man must have killed thirty on the average, and this they could scarcely have accomplished in the time, even had the Turkmans lain down quietly to be butchered like sheep, which they probably did not do. The whole 12,000 must have come by precisely the same road, just at the propitious time, and when the 400 Mughals had just finished the preceding detachment; and of course, in the stilly night, the cries and shouts, groans and screams, and the clash of arms could not be heard, and close to their khels too. All this is gross exaggeration, although contained in the Jahan-Kushae, the Rauzat-us-Safa, and several other pro-Mughal works. Having thus broken the back of their strength, the Mughals, next day, made for the encampments where were the families of the Turkmans, and early in the morning fell upon them and slew the whole — with the exception of some, who, while the slaughter was going on, threw themselves into the river of Marw, hoping to escape, and perished — male and female, young and old — who were butchered, to the number of 70,000 souls!