The brutes after a while let go their grip and
Elephant charges Aurangzib.
each stepped back a little.
Sudhakar's spirit was fully roused. Losing sight of his opponent
he turned to vent his wrath on the prince
standing by. Trumpeting fiercely, the moving
mountain charged Aurangzib. The Prince, then
only fourteen years old, calmly stood his ground,
kept his horse from turning back, and flung his
spear at the elephant's head. All was now con-
fusion and alarm. The crowd swayed this way
and that, men stumbling on one another in their
eagerness to flee. The nobles and the servants
ran about shouting, fireworks were let off to
scare away the elephant, but all to no effect.
The animal came on and felled Aurangzib's
horse with a sweep of his long tusk. But the
prince jumped up from the ground, drew his
sword, and faced the raging beast. The unequal
combat would have soon ended fatally for the
heroic boy, but succour was at hand. His
brother Shuja forced his way through the crowd
and smoke, galloped up to the elephant, and
wounded it with his spear. But his horse reared
and he was thrown down. Rajah Jai Singh,
too, came up, and while managing his shying
steed with one hand attacked the elephant with
the other from the right side. Shah Jahan
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HISTORY OF AURANGZIB. [CHAP. I.
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