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troyed by tbe camp followers. But to prevent this; plundering, petty 
officers were placed on duty ; next day several men were caught red- 
handed and brought in bound. They were paraded through the camp, 
seated on donkeys with their faces to the tail and arrows in their ears 
and noses. By this means the injury to the crops was put an end to. 1 
The Rahtor army was reported to be twelve kos south of Sambhar; 2 
rumour said they were hiding in ambush and intended to molest the 
imperialists while on the march. Not a trace of them, however, was 
seen between the capital and Ajmer; and as the imperial army passed 
through parganah Sambhar it destroyed Sanamgarb, a place of worship 
which had been erected at great cost. The march was conducted under 
great difficulties, the army suffering much in those sandy deserts from 
the want of water, in spite of the fact that they carried a provision of 
it along with them.. On reaching Ajmer tbe camp was pitched for some 
days on the banks of the lake Anasagar, 8 whence messengers were sent 
to the Rajah, on the principle that “Peace is better than War.” 4 
After a time the Sayyad moved on to Puhkar, 6 five miles north-west of 
Ajmer and thence to Mairtha, about forty miles further on, in Jodhpur 
territory; but A jit Singh still fled before him further into the sandy 
desert. An armed post ( thanah ) of two thousand men was placed in 
the town of Mairtha. 6 
In the country round Ajmer and between that place and Mairtha,. 
the villages of Rajah Ajit Singh and those of Jai Singh of Amber are 
intermingled. The inhabitants of the Jodhpur villages were afraid and 
took to flight. Thereupon orders were issued to plunder and burn down 
all villages found uninhabited, but to leave all others unmolested. When 
this became known, the Jodhpur villages interceded through their Jaipur 
neighbours; their plundered goods were then restored, the only loss being 
of the houses that had been burned. The country was thus settled and. 
brought under imperial rule, step by step, as the army moved forward. 
4 Abu-s-Samad Khan, who had been recalled from the Panjab, joined at 
Puhkar, bnt at the very first interview he and the Sayyad disagreed. 7 
On the way to Mairtha, Husain ’Ali Khan called a council of war, 
1 Kam Raj, 55a. 
2 Thornton, 852, on the south bank of the Sambhar Lake, about 175 m. S.-W. of 
Dihll; Rajputanah Gazetteer, II, 159, 39 m. S.-W. of Jaipur. 
8 Rajputanah Gazetteer, II, 4 and 61. 
4 Kare kih bah sulah bar-nay ay ad, 
Diwanagi dar u mi-bay ad. 
6 Thornton, 771 (Pokur), and Rajputanah Gazetteer, II, 67: Thornton, 618 
(Mirta), 76 m. N.-E. of Jodhpur; (Mirta), Rajputanah Gazetteer, II, 261. 
® Kam Raj., 55a, Mhd. Qasim, 197, Ahwal-i-khawdqin, 71. 
7 Ma } dsiru-l-U I, 321. Ahwdl-i-Ishawdqin, 71b, 72a. 
