Storia do Mogor 65.35.5

65.35.5

Noticing the disorder in the ranks of Aurangzeb when the rajah fell upon his rear-guard, Shah Shuja', without giving a chance for re-forming or collecting the scattered people, although it was getting late for an onset, felt that he was master of the situation, and moved out against Aurangzeb in order to seize this favourable moment. Displaying great energy and valour, he speedily routed the vanguard, which he threw into a state of terror, and advancing, attacked Aurangzeb himself, who stood fast seated on his elephant. The elephant-driver was killed by an arrow, thus forcing Aurangzeb to assume himself the control of the elephant. The arrows fell like rain upon the elephant, which, finding itself encircled and in pain, beat a retreat. Aurangzeb was all this time a target for Shah Shuja's arrows. Owing to this great extremity, it came to the point of his putting one foot out of the howdah, as if he wished to get down, and yet was unable to decide what was best to do in the midst of all that confusion and uproar. He hardly seemed to know where he was. Mir Jumlah, who was quite near, doing his duty as a good leader (and from him nothing else could be expected), when he noticed Aurangzeb's movement, shouted in a loud voice : ' Kaem ! kaem! ' (Qa,im ! qd,im!) — that is to say, ' Stand fast ! stand fast !' Dara lost the empire by getting off his elephant. He called out : ' Kaem ! kaem !' (Qdtim! qci,im !) in reliance on the note sent to AllahwirdI Khan.