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THE TRIUMPH OF TIMUE LANG 209 and their colleagues met it with, a brave and resolute resistance. While they were thus engaged, Daulat Timur Tawachi, Mangali Khwaja, and other amirs came up with their respective forces and assailed the enemy. I now gave the order to a party of brave fel- lows who were in attendance upon me, and they cut GATEWAY OF THE MOSQTJE OF ALA -AD -DIN AT DELHI. their way to the sides of the amirs, who were fighting in the forefront of the battle. They brought the ele- phant drivers to the ground with their arrows and killed them, after which they attacked and wounded the elephants with their swords. The soldiers of Sul- tan Mahmud and Mallu Khan showed no lack of cour- age, and bore themselves manfully in the fight, but they could not withstand the successive onslaughts of my