538 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1908. 
would go instead on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Accordingly he had 
turned off towards Sirat and pretended to have discharged his 
men, leaving by to three hundred of them behind him at every 
town or villa y a public order he directed his cavalry to go 
wherever they vie and take service where they could. But 
secretly they were instructed to halt where they were or go over 
to the enemy. When he wanted them they must either return to 
his standard, or desert him in the battle. He proceeded on his 
journey like a mere traveller or the member of a caravan. 
‘Ali Khan came out to bar his way. Nizam-ul-mulk admonished 
him, writing that his heart was now cold for worldly things, he 
knew no othing of public place or power, and only dreaded the 
unjust shedding of Mahomedan blood. At length when these 
remonstrances were not listened to, he determined to fight and 
recalled his troops.! 
As already stated, ‘Alim ‘Ali Khan, when he heard of the 
approach of Sayyid Dilawar ‘Ali Khan, set up his tents in the 
Muhamdi Bagh on the 12th Rajab (19th May 1720%) and left 
The Mahrattahs and some pies under Tahav var Khan, with 
Khan’s army, made their appearance, bringing the disturbing 
inteiligenos “St that officer’s defeat and death. Most of the 
Mahrattahs and some of his own officers counselled ‘Alim ‘Ali 
Khan, under these circumstances, to retreat Aurangabad or even 
Ahmadnagar, there to await the arrival of Husain ‘Ali Khan, 
leaving the Mahrattahs outside to harass Nizam-ul-mulk’s army 
by the methods of which they were such perfect masters.® 
lim ‘Ali Khan, looking on a ped as a disgrace, brought 
the rest of his army through the s. Nizam-ul-mulk, on hear- 
ing of this movement, sent him the bier of Rayyid Dilawar ‘Ali 

1 Yahya Khan 
2 Asthe ons of Sudisht says, line 137 :— 
Kaho: “ Jae dera deo maidan mon, 
“ Naxk Muhamdi Bagh, wnchan mo 
Athz barwin (12) mah-i-Rajab ka chand, 
Chala ghar tain, shamsher baktar kon bandh, 
Indian Antiquary, XXXIII (1904), p 
3 A town 16 miles N.E. of a see Hossain Bilgrami mA Will- 
mott, Sketch of Nizam’s Dominions,” II, 705 
village at the northern foot of the Ajanta ghat, 20 miles south of 
Pachoda station on the G.I.P. Railway ; see S. Hossain and C. Willmott, IT, 
467, “39 Constable’s ‘‘ Hand Atlas,” plate 31. 
Burhan- ‘ul fut, Si Ahwal-ul-khawaqin 165b6—1704 ; Khafi Khan, 
If; po Tavikh-i-muzafiar?, p. 186. 

