 A bloody battle was fought in Yawarpampa ("field of blood"), won by Cusco with the timely arrival of friendly forces.The Indian chronicler, Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yampa Salcamaygua (1613).He states that the battle would have been lost if the stone soldiers ("pururaucas") had not been brought miraculously to lifestones that were dressed as soldiers to fool the Chankas.