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Chabelah Ram, leaving his nephew in charge of Allahabad 
fort, came out several kos and entrenched himself. The two forces 
the Wazir’s offer that if he would come peaceably out of Allahabad, 
he should forthwith receive the province of Audh with the 
faujdar-ships of Lakhnau and Gorakhpur. 
Girdhar Bahadur, however, rejected all overtures. His ex- 
cuse, an obviously insufficient one, was that he had not yet finished 
the funeral obsequies of his uncle, which could only be completed 
at the holy Tribeni C that is, Allahabad, alias Pryag), where the 
Ganges, Jamnah and Sarsiti are su posed to meet, For one year 
he would not be at liberty to leave the place. He employed this 
breathing space in active preparations for a siege, and in the ac- 
cumulation of ample supplies within the fort walls. He is said 
to have dug a trench from the Ganges to the Jamnah and filled it 
with water from those rivers, thus protecting the fort on its most 
vulnerable side, that towards the west. Outside this channel he 
erected a number of small earthen forts.3 
At this time the Bundelahs were active and troublesome, both 
to the south of their country on the borders of the Malwah, and to 
the north of it between Allahabid and Agrah, With regard to the 
first of these outbreaks, Nizim-ul-mulk, the Subahd@r of Malwah, 
was written to. For the protection ‘of the country near the 
am 
Jahanabad, nid 3 other peri “They were to await orders on 
the south of the Jamnah. Sa‘adat Khan, Burhan-ul-mulk (who 
had been recently, 6th Meister 1719, gai | ag of Hindaun 
and as nated as f the 
vanguacd. About Rae time Mir salah Thachin ho had lately 
is peace with the Sayyi n nominated (8th 
7a Hijjah 1131 H., 21st October 1719) to the office of ert A 
sudur, or superintendent o of endowments, but found a difficul 
obtaining the issue of his patent of appointment, owing to the 

1 Khushhal Cand, Berlin MS., No. 495, fol. 999¢, reports that some men 
suggested foul play. Their story was that “a letter arrived from the Sayyids, 
- R,) had 
d as soon as he opened the le eo he gave up the ghost.” 
ie In the Cawnpore district, lat., 26°77’, long. 80°2’, Thornton, ‘* Gazet- 
teer,” 881. 
3 Siwdnih-i-Khizrt Kamwar Khan, entry 0 f 25th Zu,l Hijjah; 
he Tarikh-i-Mi mmadi Alig death of C. R. “ at theend of the e year 
1131", Reamer Qisim, Lahori, 300, 301, tnd; Ghia Dis, f. 
