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SVi Narayan Singh — The battle of Kanarpi Ohat. 
and many stood bargaining their prices. Here were they selling brown 
sugar and slabs of molasses, and there were laid cakes prepared in cla¬ 
rified butter. Here were sold embroidered scymitars and swords, and 
there the jewellers were selling sikkd gold mohars. Here people were 
greatly crowded round the store house, and thousands of Kachchhi and 
Khanhari horses were being sold ; there were infuriated elephants, and 
many camels. Here were painters standing as they painted pictures, 
there were laid hundreds of thousands of raisins and dried dates, and 
in another place fell into the reservoir showers from the fountain. 
Here were golden threads, and woollen § double shawls, there were sold 
necklaces of jewels and pearls. Here were lengths of silken cloth, and 
coats of muslin whose price no one was able to fix. 
18. Doha. 
They marched from Rampati,|| and thence to Achanak. There 
the king heard the beat of kettledrums, and knew that the army of the 
Governor was very near. 
19. Ghhand Bhujangapraydt. 
On both sides the armies were ready, and in the midst was the 
great river. Thousands of arrows, bows, and cannon balls were dis¬ 
charged, which seemed as if all the stars were falling from heaven at 
once. The wand-bearers ran up and down quick as the chimes (rung at 
the end of a watch). The sky was filled up as if with fireworks in the 
form of flowers. The hunters, approached and shot the enemy who 
lost heart and retired. The wounded were laid on beds (and so thick 
did they lie) that no one was able to pass by that way. 
20. Doha. 
The king told the Bakhshi to go up to the battle-field, and to keep 
all on the alert, for fear the enemy should in the end have recourse to 
some stratagem. The Bakhshi took Jafar Khan and Hala Bay, beat 
the bass kettledrum, and entered the battle-field. Some one showed 
Mahtha the way, and he performed a stratagem, and mounting a con¬ 
veyance he crossed the river at Gangduar Ghat. Then doubling his 
pace he arrived at the hamlet of Bishnupur. The messengers told the 
king that the armies (lit. crowds) had come to close quarters, and the 
two mighty heroes Mitrajit and Umrao saluted the king and thrust their 
feet into the stirrup. 
* Sal baft means woven of wool, 
f About five miles east of Bhawaya. 
