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∗ The best account of this battle is by the eye-witness Harcharandas in *Chahār Gulzār*, 377b-379b. Date in *Vir Vinod*, (new style, which I have adjusted to old style.) *Vam. Bh.* 3304-3312, Tod, (ii. Marwar ch. 11.) Harcharan exaggerates the casualties as 12,000 slain and the same number wounded. He gives a horrid picture of the battlefield as it looked when he walked among the dead the next day. A similar desperate charge was made by Rathor horsemen upon the still more modern and powerful artillery of De Boigne near Mairta on 11 Sep. 1790, with the same butchery. (Tod, ii. Personal Narrative, ch. 29.)