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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 Cholumbus, Hammira performed the funeral ceremonies: for the dead, and cooled their manos with a last ovation of the tilanjali. 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 a fell first in the thickest of the battle; then Mahimasahi; was shot through the heart, Jåja, GangadharTak, and Kshotra singh Paramàra followed them. Lastly fell the mighty Hammira, pierced with a hundred shafts, Disdaining to fall with anything like life into the enemy's hands, he severed, with one last effert, his head from his body with his own hands, and so terminaled his existence. Thus fell Hammira, the last of the Chohans. This sad event happened in the 18th year of his reign, in the month of Sravana.
the Tarkhi'Alfio of Amir Khushr gives the date as 3rd Zt.1 Ka'da, A.,II, 70 (July 1301 A.D.); the siege began in Rajab, four months previously,–Elliot and Dowson's History, vol. III, pp. 76, 179, 540,
