Jat History

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The flight of Jatwán and his*
Death in Battle.

"When the honoured month of Ramazán, 588 H., the season of mercy and
pardon, arrived, fresh intelligence was received at the auspicious
Court, that the accursed Jatwán, having admitted the pride of Satan
into his brain, and placed the cup of chieftainship and obstinacy
upon his head, had raised his hand in fight against Nusratu-d dín,
the Commander, under the fort of Hánsí, with an army animated by one
spirit."

Digressions upon spears, the heat of the season, night, the new moon,
morning, and the sun.—Kutbu-d dín mounted his horse, and "marched
during one night twelve parasangs." "The accursed Jatwán, when he
heard the news of the arrival of the victorious armies, felt himself
compelled to depart from under the fort," and fled. "The soldiers of
Islám came up to the army of Hind on the borders of Bágar; and
although Jatwán saw there was no chance of successful opposition in
battle, yet as he saw destruction impending on him from the throat of
the dragon, and the road for flight was blocked up, and the standards
of the State and royal victory were unfurled, yielding to the
necessity of the case, and not at his own option," he pre­pared for
fight, and "the noise of the hautbois and shells con­founded the
world, the thunder of the drums ascended to heaven, and the blast of
the brazen clarions resembled the sounding trump (of resurrection.)"

The armies attacked each other "like two hills of steel, and the
field of battle became tulip-dyed with the blood of the war­riors."—
Poetical digression on swords, daggers, spears, and maces. —The
Hindús were completely defeated, and their leader slain. "Jatwán, who
was the essence of vice and turbulence, and the rod of infidelity and
perverseness, the friend of grief, and the con-panion of shame, had
his standards of God-plurality and ensigns of perdition lowered by
the hand of power;" "and the dust of the field of battle was
commingled with the blood of that God-abandoned wretch, and the whole
couutry was washed from the filth of his idolatry."—Praise of Kutbu-d
dín's justice, encourage­ment of the learned, and his civil
administration. Mention of the booty taken by the Musulmáns.—He
marched to Hánsí, "and encamped there a few days, in order to repair
the fort, and after that returned towards Kohrám, which acquired
fresh beauty from his blessed feet."

"The intelligence of this happy victory and these important incidents
was divulged over the face of the world, and the noise of it spread
to the countries of Hind and Sind, far and near, and proclamations
announcing the victory of the chiefs of the State, and the defeat of
the enemies of the kingdom were written and despatched to the capital
of Ghazna, (may the Almighty preserve it in wealth and prosperity!)"
and in them was added "that the foundation of all this success was
the lofty courage and pure faith of his Majesty."

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