The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.41

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The elephants were collected as for a march on the following day, and during the night the troops were posted round the Rājput camp. At sunrise Pūran Mal saw that his fate was sealed. He severed his wife’s head from her body, and, bearing it in his hands, commanded his clansmen to follow his example. The Afghān troops fell on them while they were engaged in the ghastly task of slaughtering their wives and daughters, and they fought gallantly, “like hogs at bay” as a Muslim historian records, but they were cut down by the Afghāns and trampled to death by the elephants and not a man escaped. A few women and children were taken alive; a daughter of Pūran Mal was given to some minstrels to be trained as a dancing girl, and three sons of his elder brother were castrated.