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1878.] W. Irvine —The Bang ash Naivahs of Farr u/chabad. 
The Muhammadans now fixed their camp in front of Kulpahar, with 
Jaitpur on their right, Mundhari slightly on one side in the same direction, 
and the hills of Salhat, occupied by the enemy, on their left. Daily skir¬ 
mishes occurred whenever the troops were out clearing away the jungle. 
The enemy now gathered themselves together in the hills of Ajhnar,^ 
which is three /cos beyond Jaitpur, and Surajmau, which is the same distance 
from that place. The Muhammadan camp was moved into the hills beyond 
Jaitpur, while active preparations were made for the siege of Jaitpur itself. 
It had taken twenty months to drive the Bundelas as far west as Ajhnar. 
These twenty months, if we count from the 12th Jamadi II, 1139, (21th 
January, 1727), the date of crossing the Jamna, would end in Safar, 1110 
(August, 1728). 
During the rainy season (July to October, 1728), the siege progressed 
but slowly. Owing to the excessive moisture the mines fell in as soon 
as dug. The fort was protected on one side by a lake of great depth, 
one /cos wide and several /cos long, it was placed on a hill, and the enemy 
had mounted it with cannon and “ rahkla.” It was not till four months 
or so afterwards that the place fell. By the time it had been taken, the 
campaign had lasted over twenty-four months (Jamadi II, 1139, to Jamadi 
I, 1111 = January 1727 to December 1728). 
At this period Muhammad Khan saw reason to complain bitterly of 
the way he was treated at Court. He says he had performed the work of 
seven or eight men, that he was fighting night and day ; yet no honours 
were granted for his sons or relations, nor pensions to the dependents of 
those who had fallen. Instead of reward, their jagirs were resumed. The 
parganah of Shahpur,t he was now told, had been granted for one harvest 
only, although it had been given in exchange for a gift of two krors of 
“ dam.” In the affair of Ajit Singh of Marwar, lakhs had been given away, 
while all that Muhammad Khan had asked was the restoration of one par¬ 
ganah. 
For the preceding six months the enemy had caused confusion in parts 
of parganah Panwari. J Darak Singh, an ally of Chattarsal’s, now took up 
a position with two thousand horse and five thousand foot in the strong fort 
of Sahandi§ on the banks of a river extremely difficult to cross. Orders 
were given to Muhammad Bisharat Multani, who commanded in Bath,|| to 
coerce Darak Singh and take his fort. This man showed little zeal or 
energy, for he camped a long time in zila’ Auli^[ on pretence of conciliat- 
* Six miles S. of Jaitpur. 
f Now in the Cawnpur District. 
j The parganah N. W. of Jaitpur, in the Ilamirpur District. 
§ Mr. Cadell suggests Seonri, on the Dassan, G miles N. W. of Panwari. 
|| About 12 miles N. of Panwari town. 
TI Query, Orai in the Jalaun District, the “1” being interchangeable with “r” 
at times. 
