The Nāṣirī Generations 272.5

272.5

Some have stated on this wise, that, when the Mughals captured the city of Khwarazm, and brought the inhabitants out of the city into the plain, he [Tushi] commanded that the women should be separated from the men, and such of the women as they cared for the Mughals retained. The remainder were directed to form into two bodies, and they caused the whole of them to be stripped naked, and round about them Mughal Turks [Turkan-i-Mughal], with drawn swords, were stationed. The two parties were then commanded, thus: “The women of your city are good pugilists, therefore, the order is that both sides should set on each other with their fists.” Those unfortunate Musalman females they caused, thus ignominiously, to attack each other with hands clenched: and, for the space of a whole watch of the day, all those women continued to deal blows upon, and to receive the blows of, each other, until, at length, the Mughals fell upon them with their swords and martyred the whole of them—the Almighty reward them!