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∗ Husain Shahi, 78-83; Miskin (present) 241-243; Nur-ud-din 57a; Siyar, iii. 74; Forster, i. 278; Raj. vi. 465. Ludhiana Gaz. 23. Cunningham, 100. A Marathi despatch written from Shāmli 20 days after the battle says that five to seven thousand Sikhs were slain, Siyar ‘nearly 20,000’, Miskin 25,000, Husain Shahi 30,000, Forster 25,000, Cunningham 12,000 to 25,000. Cunningham’s Barnala is Bharthala. “On the site of the battle there now exists a village named Jitwal, near Malod”. [K. S. Barhat.] The Atlas gives a Jhatiwal, 6 m. n. w. of Maler Kotla.