68 W. Irvine—The Bangash Nawdbs of Farrukhibid. [No. 2, 
chela,* Ag& Muhammad Bakir Yarmani,t 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.t 
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, tellite him ws 
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 Imém 
Khan said to the Shekh—“O Shekh! after the death of Kaéim 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- 
sirdt-un-ndzirin” (year 1177), and in the ’Amad-us-Sa’dat (p. 88,) who may be the 
same as this man. 
+ 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. 
{ Gaz. 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 
Khizina Amira” p. 80, give distinctly the name Marahra as the town plundered by 
the Wazir’s troops on the 18th Ramzén (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 (Roorkee 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, 
