The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.23

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*Single combat.* Horn, 46, quotes instances (*Akbarnamah*, iii, 97, 98 and Khāfī Khān, ii, 304, 305), 1st where Akbar challenged his opponent, Dāūd Lodī, to a fight in single combat; and 2ndly, in 1095 H., when M. Ibrāhīm, a general of the Ḥaidarābād rulers, made a similar offer to Prince Muʿazzam, eldest son of ʿAlamgīr. We may add to these the proposal sent in 1119 H. (1707) by the same Prince Muʿazzam (afterwards Shāh ʿĀlam Bahādur Shāh) to his next brother, M. Aʿzam Shāh, when they were both claimants for the throne, then vacant through the death of their father. It does not appear that any of these duels actually took place; the last most certainly did not.