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torians as the strongest proof of the strict discipline he 
had introduced. 
“ The number of persons slain on this occasion has 
been differently estimated, and from the nature of 
the scene it could not be correctly ascertained. An 
author* * * § who has been often referred to, conjectures 
that about a hundred and twenty thousand perished ; 
while another European writer + nearly doubles this 
amount. But a respectable Indian historian J reduces 
the number to eight thousand; and there is reason 
to conclude that this number is nearest the truth. 
Two nobles who were supposed to have caused the 
riot, fled, with conscious guilt, to a small fortress near 
Delhi. They were pursued, taken, and put to 
death, with those who were deemed their accomplices, 
amounting to about four hundred persons/’ § 
* Frazer’s History of Nadir Shah, p. 185. 
t Otther. 
t Scott’s translation of the History of the Deccan. 
§ Malcolm’s History of Persia, vol. ii. pp. 32, 3. 
