68 W. Irvine — TJte Bangasft Nawals of FarrulcMbdd. [No. 2, 



chela,* Aga Muhammad Bakir Yarmani,f Mirza Mashadi Beg and Mir 

 Na'im Khan. 



After they had, in three or four days' time, reached two stages from 

 Delhi, the defeat of Naval Rae was reported. The Wazir flew into a great 

 rage and cursed that vain-glorious drunkard for not having awaited the 

 reinforcements, when it would not have been possible for those peasants, the 

 Pathans, to have wrested a victory. Saying this he struck his hands in 

 despair on the cushion on which he was seated, and then exhausted, dropping 

 his head upon the pillow, he fell into extreme perplexity. Meanwhile Isma'il 

 Beg Khan who had been sent to reinforce Naval Rae, having reached Main- 

 puri, heard from his spies of the death of Naval Rae, and retreating at once 

 rejoined the Wazir's main army, which was encamped near the town of 

 Marahra.J 



Execution of the Five Princes. 



When the Wazir raised his head from his pillow, he called for a secre- 

 tary, and directed him to write to the Shekh in command at the Allahabad 

 fort, directing him on receipt of the order to put to death with every indig- 

 nity the five sons of Nawab Muhammad Khan Ghazanfar Jang who were 

 in his custody. Another order was sent to the Wazir's son, Jalal-ud-din 

 Haidar (afterwards known as Shuja'-ud-daula), then at Delhi, telling him to 

 decapitate the five chelas, sending their heads to the Wazir. 



According to the Wazir's orders, the stony-hearted Shekh, forgetting 

 God and God's prophet, took with him several misbegotten wretches and 

 went to the prisoners. When these beheld their murderers, Nawab Imam 

 Khan said to the Shekh — " Shekh ! after the death of Kaim Khan I 

 " was raised to. the masnad, to kill me is your duty, but these four brothers 

 " of mine are quite innocent, you should postpone their death till the 

 "Wazir's order can be repeated." The Shekh turned a deaf ear to this 



* There is a Shuja' Kuli Khan alias Miyan 'Ise, a chela, mentioned in the " Tab- 

 sirat-un-nazirin" (year 1177), and in the 'Amad-us-Sa'dat (p. 88,) who may he the 

 ea'me as this man. 



t The Tabsirat-un-nazirin (year 1177), names a Mir Bakir Yamani as one of 

 Shuja'-ud-daula's leaders in the Bengal campaign of 1764. 



X Graz.. N. W. P. 155. It lies 12 miles north of the head-quarters of the Eta dis- 

 trict. The lithographed editions of both the " Siyar-ul-Mutakharin, p. 875, and the 

 Khizana 'Amira" p. 80, give distinctly the name Marahra as the town plundered by 

 the Wazir's troops on the 18th Bamzan (10th August, 1750). But Elphinstone, p. 650 

 (fourth edition) says it was the town of Barha, which might be treated as a misreading, 

 had not Elliot, in his Supplemental Glossary (Boorkee reprint, 1860, p. 110), also stated 

 that it was the town of Barha which was sacked by Safdar Jang's men. I believe 

 Marahra, however, to be correct. 



