with them, Husain Hasan, all alone, foolishly and thoughtlessly, put his horse at those Afghans, got in amongst them and began to lay on with his sword. They shot his horse, thus made him fall, slashed at him as he was getting up, flung him down, knifed him from all sides and cut him to pieces, while the other braves looked on, standing still and reaching him no helping hand ! On hearing news of it, I hurried still faster forward, and sent some of the household and braves galloping loose-rein ahead under Gadal Taghai, Payanda-i-mul ammad Qiplan, Abu'l-hasan the armourer and Mumin Ataka. Mumin Ataka was the first of them to bring an Afghan down ; he speared one, cut off his head and brought it in. Abu'l-hasan the armourer, without mail as he was, went admirably forward, stopped in front of the Afghans, laid his horse at them, chopped at one, got him down, cut off and brought in his head. Known though both were for bravelike deeds done earlier, their action in this affair added to their fame. Every one of those 40 or 50 Afghans, falling to the arrow, falling to the sword, was cut in pieces. After making a clean sweep of them, we dismounted in a field of growing corn and ordered a tower of their heads to be set up. As we went along the road I said, with anger and scorn, to the begs who had been with Husain, " You ! what men ! there you stood on quite flat ground, and looked on while a few Afghans on foot overcame such a brave in the way they did ! Your rank and station must be taken from you ; you must lose pargana and country ; your beards must be shaved off and you must be exhibited in towns; for there shall be punishment assuredly for him who looks on while such a brave is beaten by such a foe on dead-level land, and reaches out no hand to help !" The troop which went to Kar-mash brought back sheep and other spoil. One of them was Baba QashqaJ Mughul; an Afghan had made at him with a sword ; he had stood still to adjust an arrow, shot it off and brought his man down.
{July 2QtJi) Next day at dawn we marched for Kabul. Paymaster Muhammad, 'Abdu'l-'azlz Master of the Horse, and Mir Khurd the taster were ordered to stop at Chashma-tura, and get pheasants from the people theie.
1 balafrt; marked on the face ; of a horse, starred.
