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or make for Dihli. At last it was decided to move northwards till 
they struck the Jamnah, Curadman, Jat, although he owed a 
great deal to the Sayyid Te was for the moment persuaded 
by the = of great rewards to join Muhammad Shah witha 
large force. A cunning —— of his has been preserved. 
Muh rinse Amin Khan said to him: “Thou art a creature of 
the Sayyids, I have no reliance on thy service or goo will.” 
Swearing by his Hindi gods, he replied: ‘‘ Nawab Sahib! it is 
true that those great men have conferred on me such benefits 
that if I had a thousand lives and a thousand times my wealth, 
{ would have offered up all, including my family and children, 
on their behalf. But now Iam under the ee flax, the true 
lodestone, and I swear by Bhagwan I will do such service on 
the day of battle that the Nawab himself will acknowledge it,” 
He spoke the truth, for on the day of cbt he plundered the 
villages, he persuaded the emperor to change it. 
There was a great scarcity of water: it had to 3 abate im- 
mense ess and wu most sparingly, as if it were oil and 
not wa Many were unable to quench their thirst and endured. 
great vardahipa. On the 9th Zu,] Hijjah = October 1720) 
the camp was moved to a place between Bhusadwar and Kharida, 
where the fextival of the Sacrifice was RG tected, a answer to 
a letter from Khan Dauran, written by the emperor’s special 
order, Sayy:d Nas: at-yar Khan, Barhah, fuugdar of Mewat, who 
was on his way to the army on a summons from Husain ‘Ali 
Khan, presented himself and was well received, and promoted to 
the rank of 7,000. Sabit Jang (Ja‘far Brg), a protégé of Khan 
Dauran’s, was another valnable adhesion e joined a little 
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raised by his march was orn across the Jamnah, all exclaimed : 
“Rajah Girdhar Bahadur come !”" and his men then 
crossed the river by a ed “Dost ‘Ali Khan, ‘Abid Khan, and 
Gbalip Khan, siege peat es ‘nt of branding for the 
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Khan's army, also ame in, subm itted, : and were prom oted. 
On the LLth (13th October 1720) there were many presenta- 
tions with the attendant promotions and app intments ; and on 
this day the biers of Husain ‘Ali Khan. Gha rat Khan, and 
Narullah Khan, after the bodies had been wrapped in cloth of 
gold, were despatched for burial at Ajmer in the tomb of ‘Abdal- 
lah the Nawab’s father, whici: lies outside the city wall 
close to tAbdalinipani. At the time fixed, no bearers to ca 
the biers could be found; and after this difficulty had been over- 


“ - Kamwar Khan, 236, 237, Mhd. —— Labori, 366. 
2 Mubammad Qasim, ‘Lahori, second sion. 429, Shia Das, 50, 514, 
26, Khafi Khan, 1, 910, 911, Khish)al Cand, f. 10144, Rusiam ‘ali, f, 245¢. 
