The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s4.200

v2.c32.s4.200

¹ The object was no doubt to harass the Indians and to induce them to break their order. Raverty quotes from another authority that the Sulṭān divided his army into 5 divisions, four of which with 10,000 light and horse-mounted archers were to attack the enemy from all sides, often pretending flight. This went on from 9 A.M. to the afternoon, when, finding the enemy tired and worn out, he charged them with the fifth division of 12,000 horse, the flower of his army, and carried everything before him. *TN*, Vol. I, p. 468, fn. 2. *TF*, Briggs' Trans., Vol. I, pp. 176-77.