Later Mughals v1.c6.s20.10

v1.c6.s20.10

A little after midday, at the time of the Zuhr prayer, a great smoke and much noise arose within the Sikh enclosure. Kamwar Khan with one or two companions, then left the Prince's division and went towards the position of the Sikhs. When they arrived within an arrow's flight of the earthen fortification, they drew rein, and at that moment a cannon ball from the top of the hill struck a tamarind tree, then glancing off grazed slightly the neck of the horse ridden by one of the party, and passed on without doing further damage, beyond having thrown the group into some disorder. Shortly after this happened, some plunderers who had made their way into the fort, passed carrying on their backs an Afghan, who had been hurt by a gunpowder explosion. From these men Kamwar Khan learnt that the imperialists had reached the hill-top and had begun to slay and plunder, but the enemy still continued to defend several other of the small hills, and some of them had taken refuge in a fort that they had named Sataragarh, or the Star fort.†