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Later Mughals v1.c6.s6.35

Later Mughals v1.c6.s6.35

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v1.c6.s6.35

Throughout the day indescribable suffering had been caused to Azam Shah's troops by the want of water, many horses and elephants expired, and, as one of the officers present states, 12,000 horsemen were left dead upon the field. Bahadur Shah caused proclamation to be made that the soldiers of the losing side should not be harmed. Sadr-ud-din Muhammad Khan Safawi now went to the conqueror and made his submission. The bodies of the brothers, Khan Zaman and Khan Alam Dakhini, were sent to Gwaliyar for burial. Ram Singh Hada's corpse was removed for cremation to Nurabad, while that of Rao Dalpat Bundela was committed to the flames by his son Bharati Chand at the village of Dhami, seven miles from Agra. Bharati Chand with Bhimsen then retired to his home at Orchha. [Dil. 167a.] [The bodies of the three dead Princes were placed in biers and after a few days despatched for burial in the mausoleum of Humayun at Dihli.]