Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c34.s6.6

v3.c34.s6.6

The heads of the fallen Ruhela generals were severed and sent to the Emperor. Ali Muhammad Khan, blind of one eye, a wounded colonel of Zābita’s army, was captured when hiding himself among the bushes on the river bank. The news of this splendid victory, the first in his reign, reached the Emperor in his camp, ten miles in the rear, at noon. The entire credit for it was rightly given to Najaf Khan, and it became the first step of his ladder to supreme eminence in the State. “The Emperor showered favours on him, and stretching his own beard with both hands towards Najaf Khan, cried out, ‘Yet have saved my honour.’”*