Tarikh-i Salatin-i Afaghina 3.3.2

3.3.2

otherwise people would say, 'You ate the salt of Sultan Sikandar for thirty years, and were numbered amongst his chiefs, nevertheless you were ungrateful enough to side with his foes.'" Accordingly Mian Ma'ruf, accompanied by 6000 horsemen, left his camp, and halted at the distance of two kos from Mian Husain, which chief, on receiving intelligence of his arrival, came and joined him. The army of the Ráná, flushed with their success, were rejoicing and amusing themselves, and the angel of death was smiling at their heedlessness, when suddenly the sound of horns and kettle-drums withdrew the cotton from the ears of their senses, and the Rajput chieftains were dismayed. The Afghans rushed on them sword in hand, and commenced a promiscuous slaughter; the Ráná was wounded, but contrived to escape with some of his men, — the rest were put to the sword. In the morning this news was brought to Míán Makhan, and he was ashamed.