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36 way; and the two Hindu rajas, after performing wonders, and passing through the enemy's ranks, penetrated as far as the great battery, of which they took possession. This would have been the time to support those brave men; but so far was the king from making any such effort, that he sent his aides-de-camp abroad to reprimand and bring back some other commanders, who had sallied forth to their aid. This moment of suspense having been observed by Zulficar-khan and Rustem-dil-khan, they made a brisk attack upon the rajas, who received them with great bravery; but being overpowered by numbers, both these princes fell; and their men losing courage, fled towards Lahore, at the very instant that Suliman-khan Peny was coming to their assistance with a body of a thousand horse. That gallant leader came just time only enough to lose his own life by a musket-ball. His body was sent to the city by the victors, out of respect for his valour.

Of about sixty or seventy thousand men in Azim-ush-shan's army, there now remained about his elephant no more than ten or twelve thousand; and these, as soon as he returned to his head-quarters in the evening, retired to Lahore in great confusion: so that the next morning he found himself with no more than two or three thousand men, and with this handful he now wanted to attack the