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for a day, forty horses from A‘zzu-d-din’s fugitive army were brought 
in, and a visit was paid to the shrine of Shéekh Badi‘u-d-din. The next 
marches were ‘Alamnagar (5th), Dohar (7th), Jophrah, (8th), Sapoli 
(10th), Nadhaya (11th), and the town of Makhanpur on the 12th. On the 
next day visits were paid to the shrine of Shah Madar, ! and gifts were 
distributed there and at the tombs of other holy men. On the 15th 
(13th December, 1712) they moved to Makrandnagar, where ‘Ali 
Asghar Khan was created Khan Zaman and made a Bakhshi in place of 
A‘zam Khan. The next three days were spent in reciting prayers at 
the tombs of holy men at Rajgir and other places round Qannauj. On 
the 19th they moved to Jalalabad thence to Sikandrah (20th), Rangpur 
(21st), Amipur (22nd), Basantpur (23rd), Kalyaénpur (24th), Itawah 
(25th), Fazilabad (27th), Kharsanah (28th), Sarie Murlidhar (29th), 
Shukohabad (1st Zu-l-hajj), Firizabad (2nd), ‘Alinagar (4th), and 
I‘timadpur (5th). This last named place is three miles from the left 
bank of the Jamnah, and lies five miles north-east of Samigarh. 2 
Here they learnt that Jahandar Shah had reached Samigarh and 
had seized all boats up and down the river for a distance of eighty or 
ninety miles. But nota signof his further advance could be detected, 
nor did there seem any chance of their being able to cross the river 
themselves in order to force on a decisive battle. Therefore, on the 
night of the 5th Zu-l-hajj (2nd January 1713), it was resolved to send a 
capable messenger to Jahandar Shah. This man was to point out to 
him that they had come a journey of three months’ duration, he, one of 
seven days only. Why then should he hold back and delay the final 
battle 2? Let him cross at once and meet them in the field. An answer 
was awaited until the following day. The envoy then returned and 
reported that he had been taken before Jahandar Shah and had repeated 
his message. The only answer received was ‘It is well! it is well!’® 
When he passed the river they cried to him ‘ You see the bridge, you 
see the bridge,’ but so far as he could find out, they neither meant to 
cross over themselves nor allow their opponents to cross. * 
On the 7th (4th January 1713) Farrukhsiyar moved his camp some 
1 Makhanpur is 34 m. North-West of Cawnpore, Thornton, 342. Shékh 
Badi‘u-din, known as Shah Madar, died 18th Jamadi I, 840 H. (29th November 
1436) :— 
Dar Makanpur hast marqad-i-z, 
: Hind va shud hazar fakhr az %. 
Khazinatu-l-asfiyah, 11, 310; Beale, 364, has 838 H. (26th December, 1434). 
2 Ijad, 82d. 
3 Khib ast, khub ast. 
4 Tjad, 88 b. 
