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donkeys only being refused. Every man who presented himself, 
whatever his antecedents, was accepted as a recrui 
In the end this liberal increase of pay to the troops produced 
as much harm as bene The increase was made recklessly, 
without regard to the man’s aiigth of service, the old soldier 
receiving no more than one newly enlisted. The veterans were 
disgusted at being treated the same as the recruits, and men-at- 
arms with good horses worth two or three hundred rupees were 
angry at receiving no more pay than any butcher, cook or 
cotton-carder who presented himself, mounted on some wretched 
‘spite of the immense expenditure, it was noticed that the private 
‘servants aud clerks of Prince Ibrahim had no saddles for their 
horses 
In a few days as many as fifty thousand men had been regis- 
tered. The force was poorly provided with artillery, having only 
a few large guns, about two hundred small field-pieces (vahklah), 
and five-hundred swivel- -guns (jazair). In their boastful way the 
Sayyids said that cannon were not needed; they meant at the 
ecg first onset to come to close quarters. Kha fi Khan, from the 
akhshi’s records, to which he had access, and also from what 
‘Abdullah Khan told him, found that there were over ninety 
thousand horsemen recorded; out of this number perhaps four- 
teen or fifteen thousand new men with ponies, or other miscel- 
Janeous levies, had disappeared. his account does not include 
Curaman, Jats, and Rajah Muhkam Singh’s men, nor the fugi- 
.tives of Husain ‘Ali Khan’s army and the zaminda7i contingents. 
It was the general estimate that one hundred to one hundred and 
thirty-five thousand men were assembled.2 
Ghazi-ud-din Khan, Ghalib hay who since Farrukhsiyar’s 
death b had retired into private life, was won over by ‘Abdullah 
: He was flattered and styled. ‘6 brother,” snd brought back 
with the rank of 7000, 7000 horse duaspah,? the title of Amir-ul- 
umara, and the office - first bakhshi. Great efforts were made 
up the the —- side ‘to detach him —— Sayyiu’s 
h 
Khan, ‘Sambhali, who had once aie come to the front. ‘Abdul- 
Jah Khan, he wrote, could only collect the same troops that had 
already fled in a cowardly manner after Husain ‘Ali Khan's 
death ; it was a true saying, ‘‘ Beaten once will be beaten again,’’* 
and the common people looked on the easy destruction of the one 
brother as an omen for the speedy defeat of the other. Is not 

1 Khafi Khan, II, 914—917; Shia Das, 555; Muhammad Qasim, Lahori, 
361 ; Khishbai Cand, Berlin MS., 495, f. 10118; Paribas. Muzaffar?, 204, 
‘TK Kbafi Khan, Il, 918; obese Qasim, Lahori, 362. 
3 Khafi Khan, II, 914, 80 
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