528 = Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1908, 
“like a panther, spring on your back and make wet the teeth 
“of desire with the blood of his enemy,’’ Unable to bear the 
provocative a th of this letter, Nizim-ul-mulk had begun to 
retrace his steps.! 
izam-ul-mulk marched northwards early in Sha‘ban (Ist= 
his arti baggage for hives Ei to Asirgarh.? Ahead of him went 
Rajah of Taree he encamped. Dilawa r ‘Ali Khan's’ camp was 
then at a distance of two or three kos Pooait him. Nizém-ul-mulk 
proposed an sia Oe arrangement, but Dilawar ‘Ali Khan reject- 
ed all his overtures.* 
Dilawar ‘Ali Khan’s force, although not a ery large one, 
consisted of thoroughly tried and well-equippe As 
the bakhshi, or paymaster, he knew the quality of all the Sayyid’s 
troops; and when he was sent on this enterprise, he had selected 
six thousand of the best armed and best mounted horsemen out. 
of seventeey or eighteen thousand who were present with the 
They were mostly Barhah Sayyids, Hindistanis, and 
Afghans. Two of the chief men placed under him were Babar 
Khan and Sayyid Shamsher Khan,’ cousin of the two Sayyids. 
There were also the mail-clad Rajpits of Maharao Bhim Singh, 
a an 
— with three thousand five hundred men. The total force 
d not have been less than thirteen thousand, and may have 
snihnted to eighteen thousand men.7 
7. Dereat AnD Deatu oF Dindwar ‘ALI Kain, 
On the 13th Sha‘ban 1132 H. (19th June 1720), Nizam-ul- 
mulk marched four kos, then drew up his army ready to give 

1 bh 1594, 160¢, 
to Burhanpur, as stated on fol. 132 of the Gulshan-i-'ajaib. 
nall independent chieftainship i in the sere Ae sub- Seer of t 
Hoshongsbad district ; = present area is 215 square miles. a iteatt in is 
about 30 m 8S. of H indiya, ** Central Provinces Guxsttoe: eer,’ "256 
4 Khati “Khan I, 875 ; Khushval Cand, Berlin MS. No. 495, : 1002@ 
Mhd. ant goon 311; Bayan-i-waqi', Irvine MS., f. 406. The Biwanih-i- 
Dakhin 3, Says the ey of the battle was near Raipur in p: 
Chardai ral sarkar Hand a, and twelve kos to the south of the 
5 Elsewhere, II, 879, "Rhafi Khan has “ Sher Khan,” which is also i in 
the copy of Nizam-ul- mulk’s tiimar (despatch) in ‘Sahib Rae, Khujistah- 
kalam, where the name of Farhat Khan is adde 
Burhan-ul. futah, f. 1684, calls him the “ Zamindar of Bhakrah.” 
This is a place in sarkar Kanauj, sibah Malwah, A,in, II, 200. On the other 
hand Malcolm, “ Conical India,” Ist hi 231, says Mir ’ Muhammad Khan, a 
——. Was in command and was s 
1 Khafi Khan, II, 877. 

