The Nāṣirī Generations 272.4

272.4

indeed, one author says “ the city became a sea of blood;” and the siege altogether is said to have cost the Mughals nearly 100,000 men, including the unfortunate Musalman people compelled to work for their own people’s destruction. The loss sustained by the defenders is computed at about the same amount, but round numbers are often doubtful ; still it must have been very great. The whole of the remaining people were driven out into the plain without the city, and after 100,000 artisans, mechanics, and tradespeople, had been selected, to be carried off with them and transported into Mughalistan. or to assist in city, and martyred the whole of the people, and destroyed all the buildings with the exception of two places—one the Kushk-i-Akhjak [the Castle of Akhjak], the other, the mausoleum of Sultan Muhammad-i-Takish.