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ferry of Char Khajari, while troops went in pursuit of the fugitive. One 
account* states that Muhammad Khan adjusted the matter by exacting a 
contribution, hnt his own letters do not state how the affair ended. 
Muhammad Khan does not appear to have taken part in Muzaffar 
Khan’s campaign of the 16th year (1146-1147 — Sept. 1733—Sept. 1734), 
or in that of the 17th year (1147-1148) under Kamr-ud-dm Khan. About 
this time Muhammad Khan had a dangerous illness, and for fourteen days 
he could eat or drink nothing but a little rice-water. 
In 1148 H. (May 1735—May 1736), or 1149 H. (May 1736—April 
1737), Muhammad Khan reported to His Majesty that the son of Baji 
Rao with other leaders was in Bundelkhand. A party of them with two 
or three hundred horse came to the banks of the Jamna, and ascertained 
several places where the river was fordable. The rumour was that they 
intended to cross into the Duab. In reply the Emperor wrote that the 
sons of Chattarsal were in league with the enemy, and had given them a 
passage. It was expected that they would ravage Kora, Kalpi and Itawah. 
Sarbuland Khan Mubariz-ul-Mulk had received orders to prevent their 
crossing, while Muhammad Khan, instead of remaining idle, should pro¬ 
ceed towards Gwaliar. The Emperor intended to go to Akbarabad in person. 
Muhammad Khan’s reply to this command was, that he had no means 
to raise an army, that he still owed his men the pay for their second year 
in Malwa. In his beggared state he had not thought it advisable to go 
to Gwaliar, he was moreover ill, but he hoped his son, Akbar Khan, would 
be appointed faujdar of Gwaliar. In another letter to the wazir he declines 
to attend, as he does not wish to appear at Court solitary and without 
friends. He sent his son, Kaim Khan, with such troops as he had. If the 
Emperor appointed him to a subah and granted him ten Jcror of dam, 
he could raise as many men as was desired. To meet the enemy fifty thou¬ 
sand men were required, and the revenues of a subah would be absorbed. 
To go with an insignificant force to Gwaliar, and there to sit with hands 
drawn into sleeve and feet into skirt, would only encourage the invaders. 
Next Khan Dauran Khan Amir-ul-Umra writes two letters to Mu¬ 
hammad Khan. It was reported that Chimna Ji had advanced beyond 
Gwaliar via Sironj and Bundelkhand, after ejecting Bajah Jai Singh from 
Malwa, and had plundered the country. Muhammad Khan should collect 
a large army from the country near Akbarabad, and a subsidy would be 
allotted. Burhan-ul-Mulk had orders to proceed to Akbarabad and was 
advancing by daily marches. Fakhr-ud-daula, brother of Khan Dauran Khan, 
* That of the “ Sa’adat-i-Jawed” in Dowson’s Elliot, VIII, 342. See also Elliot, 
VIII, 50, and Supp. Glossary, p. 326. From the EadiJcat-ul-AJcdlim, Second Clime, 
art. Itawah, we learn that the Wazir had hurried to Dehli, to thwart a combination 
between Khan Dauran, Burhan-ul-Mulk, and Mubariz-ul-Mulk. 
