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the general slaughter, nor of the whole plunder of this signal over- 
throw; itis certain that twenty-five thousand prisoners, fifty thou- 
sand horses, five hundred elephants, two hundred thousand bag- 
gage-oxen, several thousand camels, all the ordnance, and the 
whole camp, stored with the vast riches attendant on an assemblage 
of such great chieftains, fell into the hands of the victors. 
It is worthy of notice, that the Mahrattas had a large body of 
regular infantry, and a numerous train of artillery, at the battle of 
Panniput, under the command of Ibrahim Khan, who had been 
educated by Monsieur Bussy; he was made prisoner, and put to 
death by Ahmed Shah's order. 
Ballajee Row, accompanied by Jannojee Bhosla, was on his 
march from the Deccan to succour Sudobah and his sons, when 
he received intelligence of this disaster, which so deeply affected 
him, that giving orders for a retreat, he sickened and died in about 
a month, in 17b0, leaving two surviving sons, Mhadarow and 
Narrainrow. The former, accompanied by his uncle Ragobah, 
waited on the Sao rajah at Sattara, who with every mark of favour 
conferred on Mhadarow the dignity of peshwa, purdhan pud, with 
the other honours and distinctions of his family. 
The administration of Mhadarow was chequered by domestic 
and foreign vicissitudes; the former arising from jealousies which 
led to hostilities between him and his uncle Ragobah, who was 
finally subdued and imprisoned; and by the secession of Jannojee 
Bhosla and Gopal Row, who leagued with Nizam Ally Khan after 
deposing his brother Sallabut Jung, and assuming the government of 
the Mogul part of the Deccan. This unnatural coalition caused 
a temporary ascendency of the Nizam’s arms, which was followed 
