Later Mughals v1.c6.s6.30

v1.c6.s6.30

The main body under Azam Shah in person now took up the contest. Soon an arrow struck Prince Ali Tabar on the arm, he being with his father, Azam Shah, in one howda; and at this time Sher Afkan Khan, (Mir Muhammad Husain), head of the artillery, was slain. Tari Khan (M. Usman) Janbaz Khan (M. Amin Mandal), Shujat Khan (Sayyid Abdul Muhammad), Shah Nawaz Kh. (Safawi Khan), the third Bakhshi, Mast Ali Khan, Mir Niyaz, and others also perished. Many men of note were wounded. Azam Shah, in spite of the death of his eldest son and of so many leaders, urged on his elephant, amidst a rain of arrows and balls, into the thick of the fight. It is said (Qasim, 13) that one after another four drivers were shot down, as they directed his elephant onwards.* Azam Shah himself was struck several times by arrows, but he paid no heed to the wounds. At length a musket ball struck him on the forehead and killed him. The shot is believed to have been from the hand of Isa Khan Main, a zamindar from the Lakhi Jangal of subah Lahor, then serving with the troops of Prince Muizz-ud-din. It was then about one and a half hours before nightfall. The flying troops made off towards Gwaliyar, and so many lost their lives on the way at the hands of Jat plunderers and the Rohelas of Dholpur, that the ravines leading to the Chambal were encumbered with decaying bodies. [Kamraj 30, Kamwar, Khush-hal 372b.]