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fwearing on the Koran, that no harm fliould befal the prifoner, Shujah- 

 tjl-Dowlah fent for Ibrahim Khan, and delivered him into the Grand 

 Vizier s hands. 



The Shah ordered him to be brought into his prefence, and infultingly 

 allied him, " how a man of his courage came to be in fuch a condition?'* 

 He anfwered, " that no man could command his deftiny ; that his mailer was 

 M killed, and himfelf wounded and prifoner; but that, if he furvived, and 

 «' his imjefty would employ him in his fervice, he was ready to mew 

 " the fame zeal for him, as he had done for the BhOW." The Shah 

 gave him back in charge to the Grand Vizier, where he was treated with 

 the greateft cruelty; and, as it is faid, they ordered poifon to be applied to 

 his wounds, fo that he died the 7th day after. 



The day after the battle, the Shah, fuperbly dreffed, rode round the 

 the field of battle, where he found thirty-two heaps of the (lain of different 

 numbers, moft of them killed near each other, as they had fought j beiides 

 thefe, the ditch of the Bhow's camp, and the jungles all round the neigh- 

 bourhood of Paniput, were filled with bodies. The Shah entered the 

 town of Paniput, and, after vifiting the fhrine of Boo Aly Kalinder, he 

 returned to his tents. 



Shujah-ul-Dowlah took fome hundreds of Eifhties with him 

 to the field of battle, to wafh the bodies, and look for thofe of the chiefs, 

 efpecially for that of the Bhow ; and carried the Mahratta Vakeels Sina- 

 dur Pundit, and Gunneish Pundit, and other prifoners, who knew 

 the perfons of all the chiefs, to amfr him in finding them out : according- 

 ly they found the bodies of Jesvvunt Row Powar, and the fon of 

 Pa la Jadoo, and many others. 



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