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where they were presented with cloths and ornaments as marks of 

 distinction, and thence they took leave. 



Chapter lxxxiil 



Thereafter Sheevajee Rajah leaving Ragoonath Punt and the She- 

 naputtee with the army, went to the Deah (native land), accompanied 

 by Dittajee Punt, and by Bal-Prubhoo-Cheetneess and by Manajee 

 More Panch- Hazaree (of 5000,) Anajee More and Annund How, 

 Panch- Hazaree, and he arrived at Punhala. 



The army behind was attacked by Eckojee Rajah's troops, consist- 

 ing of twenty thousand cavalry and fifty thousand fire-lockmen, and 

 commanded by Jaggunath Punt Diwan, by Bheemajee Rajah, by 

 Roybanjee Rajah, and other officers of rank. These armies fought for 

 fifteen days. One day the cavalry (of Sheevajee) charged the four 

 sides and killed two thousand infantry ; disorder ensued (in Eckojee's 

 lines) ; Jaggunath Punt and Bheemajee Rajah and Roybanjee Rajah, 

 the highest officers, were taken prisoners ; the infantry fled ; the army 

 of Chendaver was destroyed ; a thousand troopers and bramins and 

 Marhattas were killed. On Ragoonalh Punt's side, (i. e. Sheevajee' s,) 

 five hundred troopers lost their lives in the victory. 



Chapter lxxxiv. 



After that a treaty of peace was concluded, by which the half of the 

 country north of the Cavery, including the forts and palaces of Bald- 

 poor* Kolar, Maharaj Gudd, and Juggdev Gudd, and Carnatic Gudd 

 and others were ceded to Sheevajee. The Kamaveeshdar of Arnee, 

 named Odajee Bhdskur, who had eight sons, viz. Sooben-Row and 

 Neevas-Row, and the rest had been gifted by Shahjee Rajah with a dis- 

 trict including the fort of Vunneedoorg under these new cessions. 

 This gifted tract or enamf no person molested. 



The fort of Veloor fell (to Sheevajee' s troops). In that quarter 

 Ragoonath Narayen remained at Chundee and Humbeer Row Shen- 

 naputtee returned with the army towards their own country. In the 

 Carnatic a territory (yielding an annual revenue) of fifty lacs of 

 huns was acquired. 



* Ballapoor and Colar are well known to be above the Ghauts ; the other guddies 

 are in the Payen Ghaut, or Barramahl, and we see Bangalore is not included, which 

 confirms the account of its being made over by Eckojee to the Mysore Chief, previous 

 to his marching to Tanjore. 



f The Arnee jagheer has been a matter of discussion of late years ; a person in posses- 

 sion of heritable property cannot divide it; but the latter, as his own acquisition or 

 conquest, he may divide or bequeath as he thinks proper. 



