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Khan and Sayyid Sher Khan; and along with them a pie 
advising him to cease resistance and march off to join his tw 
uncles with the ladies of the family. This communication sie 
uced no effect. fter this Nizam-ul-mulk marched out of 
Burhanpur to the banks of the Parna river, which flows some 
sixteen or seventeen kos to the south and south-east of Burhan- 
pur. ere he encamped. From the other direction came ‘Alim 
"ah Khan and pitched ae camp at Talab Hartalah, which is not 
far from the same river. 
ey remained in these positions for several days. The 
constant rain, ~ muddy roads, the flooded river and the absence 
of means to cross (a bridge of boats aati been swept away ) 
made it impossible for either side age ve. ‘Then Nizam-ul-mulk 
Khan succeeded in obtaining pret - some ee and- 
lords information of a cr ossing-place at a distance of about four- 
teen or fifteen kos, in the direction of the district of Balapur * in 
sibah Barar. ‘Alim ‘Ali Khan had followed along the other ai 
and shots had been exchanged daily across the river. In t 
middle of Ramazan (15 th—20th July, 1720) Nizam -ul- tare 
crossed with his whole army to the opposite or south side of the 
river. Although in places the water was up to the men’s waists, . 
or even to their chests, no ie were lost or baggage swept away 
by the current. For one day they encamped on the river bank to 
allow the camp followers to assemble. Then the following day 
they started to find a favourable position for giving battle. The 
camp was pitched and entrenched in a diaries position full of 
thorny scrub close to Seoganw, a village in 
ixposed to incessant rain and living in the middle of deep 
black mud, they passed several days in extreme discomfort. First, 
owing to the heavy rain and the swollen streams, no supplies 

| Khafi Khan, IT, 886 ; Kamwar Khan, 226. For Hartalah sce ante ; it i 
close - 0 Bailsid (Khindesh district), which is on the uth or left bank of 

the Pir That river enters the Tapti on it. leks bank, about 16 miles after 
the peri river has crossed the bou sect of t e Khandesh district, Bombay 
Gazetteer XI (Khindesh), 7, 8, and Ber Bh steno The Parna, the main 
river of the Akola district; flows Se eee At the nearest point 
of ws course it is fully 20 miles south of Burhan 
alkapur “pind ante miles south of "Strbinpar: Tt is on the 
Na ‘pet r branch of the G.I.P. Railway, and some miles south of the Pirna.— 
Constable’s Hand yay plate 31. 
Balapur is 8 16 ia west of Akola, 16 to 18 miles south of the Parna 
river, and about 72 miles east (up stream) from Edilabad. The field ot battle 
lies between the villeg es of | Kolhari and Pimpri Gauli, abont 65 miles S.-E. 
te) eng and abet t the same distance N.-K. of ncsinoabadBuhae 
sa , 163. 
eoginw is in the Akola district ; it is no tion on the Nagpur 
‘ousdl ye the G.I.P. Railway. and is a about ec aia SCRE of the left bank 
of the Parnad, and 11 miles N.-W. of Balapur, Berar Gazetteer 164; Khafi 
Khan II, 887; Kamwar Khan, 226; Bur haneul-futith, 168¢; M. Qasim, ‘Lahori, 
327. 
