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Singh and Husain ’Ali Khan, who had both been wounded. On the way 
all that could be removed was carried away from Bithtr. On Saturday the 
11th (8rd August 1750), they came to Muhsinpur, some five miles west of 
Cawnpur. Next day they arrived at Jajmau, six or seven miles east of 
Cawnpur on the Ganges, and on the 14th (6th August, 1750), they were at 
Kanpur, a place five kos from Kora. ‘Thence the late Rajah’s family was 
sent across the Ganges towards Lakhnau; while Bakaullah Khan took up 
a defensive position at Kora. 
The morning after the victory Nawab Ahmad Khan’s army had swollen 
to sixty thousand men, including the Sahibzadas, the chelas, the men of the 
Bangash clan, the traders and villagers of all sorts. When the Bamtelas, 
who had occupied the fort at Farrukhabad heard the news, they were alarmed 
and fled to their villages. 
After the battle Ahmad Khan sent one of his father’s chelas whom he 
trusted, his name was Bhure Khan, with five hundred matchlockmen, to 
take possession of Kannauj. His orders were to occupy the fort of Naval 
Rae called the Rang Mahal, and to take care of all the property. These 
instructions were thoroughly carried out. There were hundreds of thousands 
of rupees in cash, and a very large quantity of grain stored. Rahm Khan, 
chela, used to say that his father, Dilawar Khan, then very young, visited 
Kannauj a few days after the battle, and at the commander’s invitation he 
went into the Rang Mahal. There were no people in it, but bags of rupees 
and gold coins were scattered about. There were gold brocade curtains, 
the doors and lintels were plated with silver and gold, there was a jewelled 
‘bedstead with pillows of velvet, and the basons and covers were of gold 
studded with jewels. Dilawar Khan lived all his life on the proceeds of 
the things he carried away with the kila’dar’s permission, and at his death 
he left a house and a pot full of gold coins. 
Nawadb Ahmad Khan returned to Farrukhabad with great splendour. 
Sending for the Bibi Sahiba, his step mother, from Mau, he presented her 
with offerings. He sent out his parties to occupy posts (thdnas) in all 
the thirty-three mahdls, and removed from Kannauj the whole of the pro- 
perty he had confiseated. 
A local poet, Bhabuti Bhat of ’Ataipur, parganah Kaimganj, produced 
the following ode on the occasion, for which the Nawab gave him a village 
in ndnkar. 
*Ajab wuh Sahib-i-kudrat hai, jin-ne jag samhara hai, 
Khuda hai, pék-maula hai, wuhi parwardigéré hai ; 
Khara bandah, kamr kas-kar, ghanim upar liye lashkar 
Lagi uski ’ajab chakkar, ghariri ka khaméré hai, 
Naval se mard ghazi ko na puchhi bat p4ji ko, 
Nayal se mard ghazi ko pahunch, goli se mér4 hai, 
