The Afghan cavalry and pikemen run wild…
January 1761 CE
The women and children seeking refuge in the streets of Panipat are hounded back to Afghan camps as slaves.
Males over fourteen are beheaded before their own mothers and sisters.
Afghan officers who had lost their kin in battle are permitted to carry out massacres of 'infidel' Hindus the next day also, in Panipat and the surrounding area.
They arrange victory mounds of severed heads outside their camps.
According to the single best eye-witness chronicle- the bakhar by Shuja-ud-Daula's Diwan Kashi Raj, about forty thousand Maratha prisoners were slaughtered in cold blood the day after the battle.
Many of the fleeing Maratha women jumped into the Panipat wells rather than risk rape and dishonor.
All the prisoners are transported on bullock carts, camels, and elephants in bamboo cages
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