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small guardhouses, in which he placed his men. A large cannon, said 
to throw a ball weighing a ShahjahanI maund, 1 was sent to him, being 
escorted with great ceremony from Palwal to Hodal, whence it was 
taken on to Tliun by Nusrat Yar Khan, the Deputy Governor of Agrah. 
Three hundred maunds of gunpowder, one hundred and fifty maunds of lead 
and five hundred rockets were ordered to be sent from the arsenal at Agrah. 
At first ‘Abd-us-samad Khan, Governor of Lahor, was recalled from the 
Panjab, but after he had reached Dihli, the idea of sending him was 
abandoned, and Sayyad Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan, maternal uncle 
of the two Sayyads and then Governor of Ajmer, was summoned to 
take his place. The Sayyad was despatched to Thun on the 30th 
Muharram 1129 H. (13th June, 1717). 3 
In spite of the investment of Thun, the roads were not cleared of 
robbers. The other zamindars and villagers took CuramaiTs part; 
they pillaged travellers and plundered villages. For instance, a caravan 
of merchants arrived at Hodal, consisting of thirteen hundred carts 
loaded with leather bottles full of clarified butter. Instead of giving 
the usual notice to San jar Khan, the owners started for Palwal, in the 
belief that their own one thousand matchlockmen would suffice. When 
two or three kos from ITodal, they were surrounded, the armed guards 
threw down their guns and fled, while the Jats and other plunderers 
drove off the carts into the neighbouring villages. About twenty 
lakhs’ worth of property, as the owners asserted, had been taken. 
San jar Khan soon reached the spot with his troops, but he was afraid to 
enter the villages, because they were in the jfigirs of the Wazir, Qutb- 
ul-mulk, and of Khan Dauran. 3 
Rajah Jai Singh Sawae was never distinguished as a soldier or 
general in the field, and in spite of all he could do, the siege dragged on 
for twenty months. The rains of 1717 were very late in coming, prices 
rose very high, and great expense fell upon the Rajah in bringing 
supplies from his own country of Amber. In Safar 1130 H. (January 
1718), the Rajah reported that he had many encounters with the Jats, 
in which he had overcome them, but owing to support given to them at 
Atlas Sheet No. 50 ; Faridabad, Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 49 S.E. ; Narwar, Thornton, 
685, 210 m. S, of Dihli, the Narwar Rajah was a Kachwaha; Bondi, Thornton, 1410, 
245 m. S.W. of Dihli; Kotah, Thornton, 525, 265 m. S. of Dihli, Palwal, Indian 
Atlas, Sheet No. 49 S.E. 
1 The maund or, more properly, man , is of about 80 pounds, 
2 ‘Abd-us-samad Khan reached Dihli on the 12th Muharram, Sayyad lOian Jahan 
on the 25th, (Kamwar Khan, 169). Khali IGian, II, 777, says, Sayyad Khan Jahan 
delayed two or three months outside the city before he finally started, 
8 Kamwar Khan, 168, 169, 175. 
