The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c26.12

c26.12

We have the story of the same siege told by Nizām-ud-dīn in the *Tabaqāt-i-Akbār Shāhi*, fol. 209a, line 17, (under the 12th Ilahī year, the beginning of Ramazān 974 H., 1566 A.D.). It is practically the same as Firishtah, sometimes word for word the same. He says work was begun in two places. They prepared something like a lane (or narrow street) up to the wall of the fort. “The *sābāt* which began from the emperor’s entrenchment was so wide, that ten horsemen could ride abreast along the bottom of it; and so deep¹ that a man seated on an elephant, holding a spear in his hand, could go along it”. In spite of the shields of ox-hide, a hundred men a day were killed by shots from the garrison. The bodies were built into the walls.