Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s3.193

v1.c20.s3.193

Bahadur must have been appalled at the horrid sight on viewing his conquest ;³ the mangled bodies of the slain, with hundreds in the last agonies from the poniard or poison, awaiting death as less dreadful than dishonour and captivity.⁴ To use the emphatic words of the annalist, “ the last day of Chitor had arrived.” Every clan lost its chief, and the choicest of their retainers ; during the siege and in the storm thirty-two thousand Rajputs were slain. This is the second sakha of Chitor.