Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 2.9.1

2.9.1

The army was formed into three divisions. The command of the right wing, consisting of thirty thousand Mogols, was given to Calil-ullah-Kan, and the left wing was intrusted to Rustam-Kan Dakny, a brave and famous captain, conjointly with the Rajas Chatresale, and Ramseingue Routle. Calilullah had been made Bakchis, or grand-master of the horse, in the stead of Danechmend-Khan (afterwards my Agah), who resigned that situation because he knew that he had incurred Dara's displeasure by his solicitude to uphold the sole and unshackled authority of Chah-Jehan. Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakche made a nearly similar disposition of their forces, excepting that among the troops of the Omrahs, stationed on either flank, a few pieces of field artillery were intermixed and concealed ; a stratagem invented, it is said, by Emir-Jemla, and attended with some success. I am not aware that in this battle recourse was had to any other artifice, unless it were that here and there were placed men who threw bannes, which are a sort of grenade attached to a stick, and which were thrown, from various parts of the line, among the enemy's cavalry, and which produced the effect of terrifying the horses, and sometimes of killing the men.