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sent from Satarah, Sankra Ji, Mulhar,! Kani Ji and others. 
Rajah Sahai had sent some of these men at the head of seventeen 
the part of a double traitor, wrote e to “lim ‘Ali Khan from 
Nizam-ul-mulk’s camp, pointing out that the latter’s strength 
being as yet unconsolidated, now was the time to strike a blow, 
and the sooner it was done the better. The letter was intercepted 
and the result was the disgrace of Anwar Khan, followed by his 
imprisonment and the confiscation of all his property.? 
[Niz4m-uL-muLK Repiigs To THe Letrers From AGRau. | 
Nizam-ul-mulk, with his usual ability in such matters, soon 
sowed dissension and distrust in the ake but aes wielded Sones 
documents were at once put to a use that had not been foreseen 
when they were despatched. A copy of the farm@n, duly attested 
by a q@zi’s seal, was sent i ‘Alim ‘Ali hacen 229 a letter 4 informed 
him that, since Nizam- mulk w ow inted ase 
him wit 
news of Nizam-ul-mulk’s Mipciintchienit took the heart out of the 
local leaders and the newly enlisted soldiers, who sought their 
own safety either by flight to their homes or by joining the new 
subahdar. Or, as one writer puts it: “On the way many of the 
idle boasters and valiant eunbhanianan deserted.”” In short, 
izam-ul-mulk, up to this time a fugitive and a rebel, hekibe. 
forth assumed, in full reliance on the farman, the attitude of a 




1 The Burhan-ul-futuh, 167¢, and Khishhal Cand, Berlin MS. 495, 
J. 1,003¢, say that all power in the Dakhin ) under‘ Alim ‘Al n Khan had centred 
in Shankra Ais Risin had lately come back from Dihli. Grant D 06, says 
he was Fits pS as the envoy of Rajah Saha. He was a oclgtaall? a 
clerk (ké ay Shiva iy Sitoosaments in 1690 appointed by Ram 
Raja to an pia pnetbeics called Surnis). This was one of the eigh 
ti 

and went to ompatiort Although an "old man, he grew tired of this idle life 
and entered the service of ager ‘Ali Khan when he came to the Dakhin, 
“ee - 8a hee 164, V7, 197, 1 
a 
08 aide 
Bishwanath, the Peshwa; Taki Ji, Gijar; Pila, Jadu; Da wal Ji, Samisya ; 
Jamna Ji, Daseer tor Dhor) ; Manka Ji, Danah. The names in Khishhal 
Cand, 1003 4 are Kanha. Ji, Bala Ji, Pila Ji and Sankara, Brahman. Grant 
, 206, has in addition Haibat Rao Nimbal kar. 

