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thousand Mahrattah horsemen sent by Rajah Sahai. Amin 
Khan, late governor of Nader, 7.e., Barar, although he had pre-, 
viously expressed great enmity towards Husain ‘Ali Khan, was 
bought over by gifts of money, elephants and jewels.' Alto- 
ther ‘Alim ‘Ali Khan reckoned his army at thirty thousand 
horsemen, of whom he intended to take command in person. He 
commenced his march early in Sha‘ban (1lst= 7th June 1720)? 
On his side Nizam-ul-mulk had proposed to suspend further 
would be difficult to keep the troops ‘iscedliea for four months 
without more money than was available. In consequence, imme 
diate action was resolved on. When Nizam-ul-mulk heard that 
‘Alim ‘Ali Khan had sent his tents out from Aurangabad, he 
marched from the Lal Bagh on the regi of eerie: ee 
the Tapti, and pitched his camp on the east side of the t 
But at the end of Rajab (30th = F 6th June 1720) he learnt “that 
Narbada somewhere about Handiya,’ Dilawar ‘Ali Khan had got 
as far as Husainpur in the Handiy4 sarkar, about fourteen kos 
from Burhaénpur. Considering this opponent to be the more 
formidable, Nizam-ul- mulk decided to encounter him first.* 
Tt seems that the Sayyids had sent their general a letter in 
which they accused him of cowardice. Stung by the imputation, 
e to —— ul-mulk when drunk, as he often was, in the 
fellowitg strain: “‘ What manly virtue is there, nay is it not a 
* death-blow to Medan thus to flee from death ; ; and for the 
- * sake of sh ee this paltry life, to climb so many mountains and 
cross so many deserts? Would it not be well to confide in the 
‘* All Powerful and come out to meet the writer, so be side | aE 
et brings ‘8 a destructive tempest; and if imitating a deer of the 
“ plains you escape and flee to the mountains, this pursuer will, 







min Khan was a brother of Khan ‘Alam, Dakhini; m was killed in 
wer, H. (1724), fighting under Mubiriz Khan catia nat Nizim-al-mulk, 
gies Lumens, I, 352. 
@ Khafi Khan, II, 874. 
3 In the “Hoshangabad. district, on the south bank of the Narbada, about 
92 miles N.-E, of Burhanpur. Té is on the old high road from the Dakhin to 
Agzib,” ‘Central Provinces Gazetteer,” 
4 Khafi "Khan, II, 875; Awoal-al-bewdein, - 1604 ; operates 
181, 
