1879.] W. Irvine—Zhe Bangash Nawdbs of Furrukhibad. 61 
feet of elephants. Then he ordered out his artillery and camp equipage, 
and marched westwards from Shéhab4d—Kannauj, at the head of an immense 
force, with one thousand cannon of all sorts, large and small. He pushed 
on to the Kali river as quickly as possible, and crossing it pitched his camp 
on the left bank near Khudaganj, seventeen miles south-east of Farrukha- 
bid and twenty miles north-west of Kannauj.* Soon after this, letters 
from the Wazir arrived, announcing his own approach and giving orders 
that till the two forces had joined, the attack was to be postponed. The 
Wazir’s words were, that if any of the wild beasts, z. e., the Pathans, survived 
the battle, he would tie stones round their necks and drown them in the 
river, not one of their seed should be left alive in Hindustan. Naval Rade 
proceeded to carry out these orders. Hecaused a ditch to be dug round 
his camp, and posting his guns all round his entrenchment, he secured them 
to each other by chains. Heralds (nakvb) were sent to proclaim aloud 
from tent to tent the Wazir’s instructions, and the army was warned that 
any one engaging the enemy would come under the displeasure of the 
’ Wazir and the Rajah. 
Meanwhile, on the Bangash side, at Rustam Khan’s suggestion, Nawab 
Ahmad Khan ordered a march eastwards. His personal troops were under 
the command of his son, Mahmid Khan, then about fifteen years of age, 
and there were other contingents under Zu’lfikar Khan, Khan Samaén Khan, 
Jamal Khan, Muhammad Mah Khan, Bahadur Khan, Roshan Khan, Mak- 
han Khan, ’Abd-ur-rahim Khan, Birahim Khan Kashmiri, Yar Khan of 
Daipur and Mirza Anwar Beg. There were also the following chelas of 
Nawab Muhammad Khan, Ghazanfar Jang, viz., Haji Sarfariz Khan, 
Ranmast Khan, Sarmast Khan, Namddr Khan the elder, Namdar Khan the 
younger, Sherdil Khan, Nahardil Khan, Jowahir Khan, Salabat Khan, 
Hafizullah Khan, Bara Khan, Pahar Khan, the five sons of Shamsher 
Khan, two sons of Mukim Khan, ’Usman Khan, son of Islim Khan, also 
Mahtab Khan and Dilawar Khan Jantibi. The Pathdns encamped about 
two miles from the army of Naval Rae. The site of the encampment was, 
tradition says, at Rajeptr on the metalled road, three miles north-west of 
Khudaganj. 
To reinforce Naval Rae, the Wazir had on the 27th and 28th Sha’ban 
(21st and 22nd July, 1750), detached a force of twenty thousand men under 
Nasir-ud-din Haidar, Isma’il Beg, Muhammad Ali Khan Risaldar, Rajah 
* The author of the ‘“’ Amad-us-Sa’dat”’ tells us (p. 47,) that to the Kali river are 
ascribed miraculous properties. When only knee-deep, if you beat the kettle-drums, it 
rises over an elephant’s head. He offers the rationalistic explanation that the bottom 
is yielding, and soon gets trodden into a quagmire, so that any one afterwards crossing 
by the same passage would sink in, 
