Later Mughals v1.c6.s20.17

v1.c6.s20.17

In the morning (20th Shawwal, 1122 = 11th December, 1710) Rustam Dil Khan appeared with the prisoners and spoil, the latter including five elephants, three cannon, seventeen light pieces (rahkla) and some other things. He was rewarded with a gift of two of the elephants. The prisoners, ten or twelve in number, were made over to the police officer, Sarbarah Khan, for execution. The chief man among them was one Gulabu Khatri, a tobacco seller, who had passed himself off as the Guru, in order to facilitate the real man's escape. As the proverb says "The hawk had flown and the owl was netted."† Khafi Khan, with reference to this event, comments‡ on the zeal and self-sacrificing spirit shown by the Guru's followers. They were all equally devoted to his cause. What a contrast to the imperial armies, where, out of two or three thousand men, it was wonderful if one or two hundred were really prepared to fight to the death!