Original sentence: Hanway shortly afterwards heard in Persia of 17,000 Indians having been killed.Harcharan Das gives 20,000 and the Maratha envoy in the imperial camp 10 to 12 thousand men in one account and seven to eight thousand in a later report.Nader Shah’s court historian gives the exaggerated figures of 100 chiefs and 30,000 common soldiers slain and a vast number taken prisoner.Rustam Ali says that Khan Dauran alone lost 5,000 men with at least 3000 for Sa’adat Khan's division, making a total of 8000 slain.Sa’adat Khan and his nephew, Nisar Muhammad Khan as well as Khwaja Ashura, a son of Khan Dauran, were all captured alive.The loss on the Persian side was around 2,500 slain and twice as many wounded, according to Hanway, who estimates the Mughal casualties in slain as seven times the number of the Persians killed.The slaughter in the Mughal army was terrible
Edited sentence: Exact figures are uncertain as accounts of that period were prone to bombast.The Mughals suffered far heavier casualties than the Persians.The Persians were estimated to have lost around 2,500 men.Various contemporary commentators estimated Mughals casualties being upto 30,000 men slain with most agreeing on a figure of around 20,000