NEW DELHI, Dec. 17—India marked her triumph quietly today and disclosed that in the two weeks of fighting with Pakistan 2,307 Indians were killed, 6,163 wounded and 2,163 were missing. India also said she had lost 73 tanks and 45 aircraft.

After Pakistan accepted India's call, for a truce on all remaining fighting fronts the Indian chiefs of staff ordered their field commanders on the western front to “preserve the positions they occupy at 8 P.M.” tonight an Indian spokesman said. The field commanders were also instructed to “take all necessary action to defend themselves” if they are attacked.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, today that the joy of victory should not be allowed to “tilt the balance of our equanimity or blur our vision of the future.”

Negotiations Expected

There were no parades or dancing in the streets of New Delhi. The capital remained blacked out last night in the event that the Pakistanis violated the cease‐fire.

It is expected in New Delhi that some form of negotiations will now take place between India and Pakistan to resolve the major issues created by the war. They include:

The repatriation of 93,000 Pakistani soldiers from East Pakistan. That is the number that Lieut. Gen. A. A. K. Niazi, the Pakistani commander, says are there.
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¶The disposition of the pieces of territory that each country, has taken from the other during the fight on the western front. India appears to have won the most, with over 1,500 square miles to only 50 for Pakistan, Indian spokesmen say.

¶The fate of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the leader of the Awami League, the Bengali political party. Sheik Mujib, who is regarded by the Bengalis as their president, is now in a West Pakistan prison on charges of treason.

Mujib's Release a Factor

Although Indian spokesmen would not comment on what form the negotiations might take or where they would be held, it is widely believed here that India will demand the release of Sheik Mujib as its basic negotiating position. Without him, Indian officials fear, chaos and a struggle for power will develop in Bangladesh, the name given to East Pakistan by the Bengali rebels who have been seeking an Independent Bengal nation.

The leaders of the rebels' government flew yesterday to Dacca, the capital, to set up their offices.

Tonight, following acceptance of the cease‐fire, there were no reports of violations. But during the last day of the war on the western front there was heavy fighting.

Indian troops said they had stormed three mountain posts near Kargil in northern Kashmir, bringing the total captured to 36. The posts lie at an altitude of 15,000 to 16,000 feet and overlook a key Indian highway.

The biggest tank battle of the war, at Shakagarh in the Punjab, came to a halt after the reported loss of 57 Pakistani tanks in two days of fighting. Field reports said the battle tapered off just before the cease‐fire deadline, leaving the Indians with over 400 square miles of Pakistani territory in is salient that jutted into India.

Final Pakistani Effort

Pakistan brought up heavy reinforcements including part of its First Armored Division, which had not previously been committed to battle, to try to drive the Indians back from the town of Naya Cher in the Great Indian Desert, an Indian officer said.

The only region where Pakistan has been able to gain land, Indian officers report, is the Chhamb area in southwestern Kashmir. The Pakistanis launched their biggest offensive of the war here last week, but after five days of fierce fighting they were stopped short of their objective, the Indian highway running to northern Kashmir.

The Indians were pleased about the successes they had achieved on both western and eastern fronts. They felt that they had scored a clear‐cut victory over Pakistan in the West, in contrast to the 22‐day stalemate of 1065.

Lieut. Gen. K. P. Candeth, the Indian commander on the western front, said at a news conference tonight that his only regret was that the cease‐fire had come at a time when his troops were about to break the backbone of the Pakistani Army.

In East Pakistan, Indian officers reported, all Pakistani troops have now surrendered.

Lieut. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora, the Sikh who commands India's eastern forces, said in Calcutta that the prisoners would be brought in India for their own safety. He said that the Pakistanis had been allowed to keep their weapons.

“The local population will butcher them if they are unarmed,” he said. General Aurora also said that the Bengali guerrillas had been turning over all their prisoners to the Indian Army.

Considerable interest focused on the fate of the prisoners in East Pakistan. Many Indians feel that these Pakistani soldiers, because of the atrocities they are accused of having committed against the Bengalis during their nine‐month occupation, are no better than “dogs” and deserve to be treated as such.

Fair Treatment Pledged

But the Indian Government and military have repeatedly assured the Pakistanis that they would he treated with the rights of all captured soldiers under the Geneva convention.

President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan's cease‐fire order was transmitted to the Indian Government today through the Swiss and American Embassies in New Delhi. In it, he appeared to make Pakistan's acceptance of the cease‐fire conditional upon India's adherence to resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly last week. The Indian radio quoted him as having said, “If India is really serious about its proposal for a cease‐fire, India is advised to move forward according to recommendations of the General Assembly.”

However, Indian officials said that they viewed this condition as “propaganda for internal consumption only,” and therefore took the Pakistan President's order as binding.

One major casualty of the war has been American prestige and influence in India. Indians are highly indignant over President Nixon's policy of blaming India for the war and his sending of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise into the Bay of Bengal.

The Indian newspaper The Statesman said editorially today:

“Little that the U.S.A. may now attempt by way of amends will ever restore its goodwill fully, since Indian public opinion is unlikely to forget, even if public memory is proverbially short, that President Nixon was apparently prepared to create a second Bay of Pigs in the subcontinent.”

The major beneficiary of this anti‐American feeling has been the Soviet Union. Its First Deputy Minister, Vasily V. Kuznetsov, left New Delhi today after a six‐day visit. His departure apparently was delayed because of Soviet concern that India might expand the war and try to take some territory in West Pakistan, thus bringing in Chinese or American intervention.