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BABEIi.
193
half-past nine in the morning this memorable battle
commenced. The right and left wings of the two op-
posing armies first encountered, and an animated strug-
gle ensued. The Moghuls began to give way, when they
were reinforced by Cheen Timur Sultan, and the reserve
under his command. Cheen Timur, joining in the com-
bat with those troops, drove the enemy back upon their
centre. Meanwhile the artillery being advanced, broke
the line of the foe, producing a scene of dreadful con-
fusion. Whole ranks were swept to the earth by
those terrible engines of death. The wings of the
imperial army, according to the tacticks of Jengyz
Khan, wheeled round upon each flank of the confede-
rates, supported by the reserve; while the imperial
matchlock men, issuing from behind the artillery,
made dreadful havoc among the enemy's disordered
and broken lines. The struggle was maintained with
unflinching resolution by the llajpoots and their allies;
the former of whom, though they could not restore
order among their ranks, disdained to fly. The
slaughter was prodigious, and the confusion of the
confederates increased every moment. At length,
Babcr, embracing a favourable opportunity, charged
with his personal guards and compelled the Indians to
give way. Most of the confederate nobles were slain,
liana Sanka escaped with difficulty from the field,
which was covered with the dying and the dead.
The words of the imperial firman are characteristic :
" The road from the field of battle was filled like hell
with the wounded who died by the way ; and thelowest
hell was rendered populous in consequence of numbers
of infidels who had delivered up their lives to the an-
s
193
half-past nine in the morning this memorable battle
commenced. The right and left wings of the two op-
posing armies first encountered, and an animated strug-
gle ensued. The Moghuls began to give way, when they
were reinforced by Cheen Timur Sultan, and the reserve
under his command. Cheen Timur, joining in the com-
bat with those troops, drove the enemy back upon their
centre. Meanwhile the artillery being advanced, broke
the line of the foe, producing a scene of dreadful con-
fusion. Whole ranks were swept to the earth by
those terrible engines of death. The wings of the
imperial army, according to the tacticks of Jengyz
Khan, wheeled round upon each flank of the confede-
rates, supported by the reserve; while the imperial
matchlock men, issuing from behind the artillery,
made dreadful havoc among the enemy's disordered
and broken lines. The struggle was maintained with
unflinching resolution by the llajpoots and their allies;
the former of whom, though they could not restore
order among their ranks, disdained to fly. The
slaughter was prodigious, and the confusion of the
confederates increased every moment. At length,
Babcr, embracing a favourable opportunity, charged
with his personal guards and compelled the Indians to
give way. Most of the confederate nobles were slain,
liana Sanka escaped with difficulty from the field,
which was covered with the dying and the dead.
The words of the imperial firman are characteristic :
" The road from the field of battle was filled like hell
with the wounded who died by the way ; and thelowest
hell was rendered populous in consequence of numbers
of infidels who had delivered up their lives to the an-
s