A lofty genius is the key to difficult enterprises, and a lamp of the mysteries of destiny. Especially, wherever such a lord of fortune put his heart into an arduous task, he easily accomplishes it in spite of the apprehension of worldlings. Thus it was by the lofty genius of the Shāhinshāh, which is the interpreter of the Divine aid, that the work of the sābā was accomplished under the supervi­sion of Rajah Todar Mal and Qāsim Khān Mīr Barr-u-Baḥr. Excellent quarters were constructed on the top of the sābā, and H.M. stayed in them for two nights and one day before the work was completed, and directed the operations. The fortunate combatants strung up their hearts to the taking of the fort and destroyed its walls. The besieged also displayed bravery. H M. personally put his heart into the conflict, and kept up a fusillade. He took up a place on the sābā and watched the spectacle of the brave-hearted and of the chain-breaking tigers. During these two nights and a day those gallant men so engaged in conflict that they took neither sleep nor food. The strength of both sides was exhausted. At length on the morning of Daibamihr 15 Isfandarmāz, corresponding to Tuesday 25 Sh'abān, 23 February 1568, that sky-based fortress was conquered. The account of this glorious event, which might serve as the bulletin of fortune, is that on the previous night an attack was being made on the fort from all sides, and several breaches were made in the walls. There were manifest indications that the fortress was ruined. Near the sābā, brave men of the conquering army had pressed forward and had destroyed much of the solid wall of the fort. Half of the night had passed when the garrison crowded into the breach and, while part of them gave them­selves up to destruction, the other brought muslin, cotton, wood and oil and were filling up the breach so that when the ghāzis should approach they should set fire to the heap and prevent anyone from entering. At this time H.M. perceived that a person clothed in a cuirass known as the hazār mīkhī (thousand nails) which is a mark of chieftainship among them, came to the breach and superintended the proceedings. It was not known who he was. H.M. took his gun Sangrām, which is one of the special guns, and aimed it at him. To Shujā'at Khān and Rajah Bhagwant Dās he said that, from the pleasure and lightness of hand such as he experienced when he had hit a beast of prey, he inferred that he had hit the man. The Khān Jahān represented that the man had been continually there during the night and been directing the operations; if he did not come back it was evident that he had been killed. An hour had not passed when Jabbār Qulī Diwānā reported that the enemy had all disappeared within that space of time. Just at the same time fire broke out at several places in the fort. The courtiers had various ideas about this, but Rajah Bhagwant Dās represented that the fire was the johar. For it is an Indian custom that when such a calamity has occurred a pile is made of sandalwood, aloes, etc., as large as possible, and to add to this dry firewood and oil. Then they leave hardhearted confidants in charge of their women. As soon as it is certain that there has been a defeat and that the men have been killed, these stubborn ones reduce the innocent women to ashes. And in fact on the morning when the breeze of victory and domin­ion arose, it was ascertained that the Shāhinshāh's musket had reached Jaimal, the governor of the fort, and had at once destroyed both him and the fort. The fires were the johar, and they took place in the house of the Pata who belonged to the Sīsūdia clan and was one of the Rānā's principal servants, and in the house of the Rāthors, of whom Ṣaḥib Khān was the chief. There was also a great johar-fire in the house of the Cūhān- whose chief was Aissar Dās. As many as three hundred women were burnt in the destruc­tive fire of those refractory men. Though on that night no one remained in the breach and though every one had given up heart on the killing of Jaimal, and withdrawn to a corner of retreat, yet the rules of precaution were observed and the heroes and ghāzīs were collected from every side and directed to enter the fort at dawn. When the morning-breeze of dominion arose, the active young men and the bold warriors came from the batteries and entered the fort, and engaged in killing and binding. The Rajputs gave up the thread of deliberation and fought and were killed. An order was issued that the active and experienced elephants should be brought in from the front of the sābā. First, Girdbāz Dhokar was brought and stationed at the head of the wall. Then came Madhukar, and then Jangīā, Sabdaliya and Kādira. Each of them did things which surpassed imagination.