An order was given to set up a pillar of pagan heads on the ... hill between which and our camp the battle had been fought. (...) About 1000 men, women and children were made prisoner; there as also great slaughter, and a pillar of heads was raised. (Babur)

An order was given to set up a pillar of pagan heads on the ... hill between which and our camp the battle had been fought. (...) About 1000 men, women and children were made prisoner; there as also great slaughter, and a pillar of heads was raised.

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