Later Mughals v1.c6.s6.17

v1.c6.s6.17

Azim-ush-shan continued to face the enemy and held his ground so far as he was able, sending at the same time urgent messengers to his father calling for reinforcements. The messengers reached Bahadur Shah while he was still engaged in hunting, but he turned at once towards the field of battle, sending first Munim Khan, the Wazir, and then Prince Muizz-ud-din and his other sons to support Azim-ush-shan. Meanwhile Bidar Bakht's drums had begun beating in honour of his supposed victory. Zulfiqar Khan and others proposed to Azam Shah that they should encamp where they were and postpone the final battle till the next day, in the hope that the other side's defeat in the skirmish would exercise a depressing influence on them. Azam Shah would listen to no such proposal, styling it angrily mere women's talk. [Jang., K.K. 589.]