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Taid to-be five hundred thoufand fouls in. the Mdhratta camp-, of wliom&e 

 greatefl part were killed or taken prifoners : and ofthofe, who efcaped from 

 the. field of battle -and the purfuit, many were deftroyed by the Zemindars of 

 the country. Antajee Mankeser, a chief of rank, was cut off by 



[the Zemindars of Ferocknaguro 



The plunder found in the Mahratfa camp was prodigiously great? -you 

 might fee one of our horfemen carrying ..ojF eight or ten camels, loaded 

 with valuable effects: horfes were driven away in flocks like fheep ; and ; 

 great numbers of elephants -were alfo taken. 



Near forty thoufand prifoners were taken alive; of which fix or feven 

 thoufand took fhelter in the camp of SnujAH-UL-DowLAH,who ported his 

 -own people to protect them from the cruelty of the Burraniesi but the 

 ruhhappy prifoners, who fell in the hands of the latter, were mod of them 

 jnurdered in cold blood, the Durranies faying in jeft, that, when they left' 

 their own country, their mothers, lifters, and wives defired that, whenever 

 tthey (bquld defeat the unbelievers, they would kill a few of them on their 

 account, that they alfo might poffefs a merit in the fight of God. In this 

 manner, thoufands were deftroyed, fo that in the Durrany camp (with an 

 .exception of the Shah and his principal officers) .every tent had heads 

 piled up before the door of it. 



As foon as the battle was over, all the chief officers prefented their Nez* 

 zurs of congratulation to the Shah ; and his majefly, having taken a flight 

 view of the field of battle, returned to his tent, as all the other command- 

 ers did to theirs, leaving the inferior officers and private foldiejs to ; con« 

 tmue the plunder and purfuit at their own .difcrjeticm. 



