हम्मीर महाकाव्यम् (रणथम्भौर चौहान वीरगाथा एवं इतिहास)

30 upon the invaders at a place on the Varṇanâśâ, and gained a decisive advantage over the enemy, great numbers of whom were killed. Contenting himself with the advantage thus gained, Bhîmasingh began to retrace his steps towards Raṇathaṁ- bhôr, Ulugh Khân secretly following him with the main body of his army. Now it so happened that the soldiers of Bhîma- singh, who had obtained immense booty, were anxious to carry it home safely, and, in their anxiety to do this, they outstripped their chief, who had around him only a small band of his personal followers. When Bhîmasingh had thus gained the middle of the Hindavât pass, in the pride of victory he ordered the kettledrums and other musical instruments he had captured from the enemy to be vigorously sounded. This act had an unforeseen and disastrous consequence. Ulugh Khân had ordered his army to follow Bhîmasingh in small detachments, and had commanded them to fall on him wherever he should sound his martial instruments, which they were to understand as the signal of some great advantage gained over the enemy. When the detached parties, therefore, of the Muhammadans heard the sound of the nagâras, they poured into the pass from all sides, and Ulugh Khân also coming up began to fight with Bhîma- singh. The Hindu general for a time nobly sustained the unequal combat, but was at last wounded and killed. After gaining this signal advantage over the enemy, Ulugh Khân returned to Dehli. Hammîra, after the completion of the sacrifice, learnt the details of the battle and of the death of his general Bhîmasingh. He upbraided Dharmasingh for desert- ing Bhîmasingh, and called him blind, as he could not see that Ulugh Khân was on the track of the army. He also called him impotent as he did not rush to the rescue of Bhîma- singh. Not content with thus upbraiding Dharmasingh, the king ordered the offending general to be blinded and castrated.