History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c77.s3.4

v5.c77.s3.4

The huge raised platform had collapsed and its guns lay overturned on the hillside. The Mavle infantry, saddened by the loss of 500 of their kinsmen and comrades and unable to recover their bodies from under "that hill of stone and clay," at night set fire to the entrenchments, which were entirely made of wood, so as to ensure the Hindu form of funeral for their dead! The fire burnt for a week and these costly siege-works were reduced to ashes. [M. A. 419.]