Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s12.26

v2.c28.s12.26

Jawahir saw the disaster to his detachment and pushed up reinforcements of 700 Nagas under Umrao-gir Gosain in person, by a luckily discovered ford. They were just in time to save the Jat force on the eastern bank from annihilation. The battle raged till sunset, after which Najib's men fell back to their camps and Jawahir's troops crossed over to the western bank by a ford lit up by two lines of torch-bearers. It must be admitted that Balaram's troops had disgraced themselves, and had been saved only by the desperate and bloody sacrifice of the Nagas.