User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/The Mughals Stay/@comment-4621372-20120706114238/@comment-32656-20120708071836

It is rare that you can say that it is impossible for someone to win a battle or campaign.

You are incorrect, Guns - Aurangzeb was winning the battle when Dara got off of his elephant. His troops, as a whole, were better equipped, trained, and led. He had defeated Dara's right flank by that point - his Rajputs were in fact the ones that had been "smashed" - and the rest of that flank was under heavy bombardment. The elephants under Dara's command never broke the enemy center in any such way, either. Dara getting down only helped him win faster.