हम्मीर महाकाव्यम् (रणथम्भौर चौहान वीरगाथा एवं इतिहास)

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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