became the food of crows and kites. Mounds wrre made of the bodies of the slain, pillars of their heads.
(j. Hindu chiefs killed in the battle.)
Hasan Khan of Mhvat was enrolled in the list of the dead by the force of a matchlock (zarb-i-tufak); most of those headstrong chiefs of tribes were slain likewise, and ended their days by arrow and matchlock {tir u titfak). Of their number was Rawal Udl Singh of Bagar,11 ruler {wall) of the Dungarpur country, who had 12,000 horse, Ral Chandraban Chuhan who had 4,000 horse, Bhupat Rao son of that Salahu'd-dln already mentioned, who was lord of Chandlrl and had 6,000 horse, Manik-chand Chuhan and Dilpat Rao who had each 4,000 horse, Kanku or Gangu) and Karm Singh and DankusI (?)2 who had each 3.°°0 horse, and a number of others, each one of whom was leader of a great command, a splendid and magnificent chieftain. All these trod the road to Hell, removing from this house of clay to the pit of perdition. The enemy's country (ddru'l-harb) was full, as Hell is full, of wounded who had died on the road. The lowest pit was gorged with miscreants who had surrendered their souls to the lord of Hell. In whatever direction one from the army of Islam hastened, he found everywhere a self-willed one dead ; whatever march the illustrious camp made in the wake of the ■ fugitives, it found no foot-space without its prostrate foe.
All the Hindus slain, abject (khwar, var. zar) and mean,
By matchlock-stones, like the Elephants' lords,3
Many hills of their bodies were seen,
And from each hill a fount of running blood.
Dreading the arrows of (our) splendid ranks,
Passed 4 they in flight to each waste and hill.'
te [see p. 572] farash. De Courteille, reading/trash, translates this metaphor by comme un lit -torsqu'il est difait. He refers to Qoran, cap. 10', v. 3. A better metaphor for the breaking up of an army than that of moths scattering, one allowed by the word farash, but possibly not by Muhammad, is vanished I kc bubbles on wine.
Bagar is an old name for Dungarpur and Banswara [G. of I. vi, 408 s.«. Banswara].
sic, Hai.-MS. and maybe so read in I.O. 217 f.220b; Ers^ine writes Bikersi )P- 367) and notes the variant Nagersi ; Ilminsky (p. 421) N:krsi ; de Courteille (". 307) Niguersi.
3 Cf. f. 3181$, and note, where it is seen that the stones which killed the lords of the Elephants were so small as to be carried in the bill of a bird like 11 swallow. Were such stones used in matchlocks in Babur's day ?
gitzaran, var. gurazan, caused to flee and hogs (Erskine notes the doublemeaning).
Flickr
Stumbleupon
Scribd
