हम्मीर महाकाव्यम् (रणथम्भौर चौहान वीरगाथा एवं इतिहास)

47 on the funeral pile When the king s daughter prepared to ascend the pile, her father was overcome with grief He embraced her and refused to separate She, however, extricated herself from the paternal embrace, and passed through the fiery ordeal When there remained nothing but a heap of ashes, the sole remains of the fair and faithful Chohanis, Hammira performed the funeral ceremonies for the dead, and cooled their manes with a last ovation of the tilánjali He then, with the remains of his faithful army, sallied out of the fort and fell upon the enemy A deadly hand to hand struggle ensued Virama fell first in the thickest of the battle, then Mahimasîhi was shot through the heart Jâja, Gangâdhar Tâk and Kshetrasingh Paramara followed them Lastly fell the mighty Ham mira, pierced with a hundred shafts Disdaining to fall with anything like life into the enemy s hands, he severed, with one last effort, his head from his body with his own hands, and so terminated his existence Thus fell Hammira, the last of the Chohâns! This sad event happened in the 18th year of his reign, in the month of Srâvana ³⁰

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³⁰ The Târîkh i 'Alâî of Amîr Khusrû gives the date as 3rd Zî l ha da A H 70 (July 1301 A D ), the siege began in Rajab four months previously —Elliot and Dowson s History vol III pp 75 179 549