Riyaz al-salatin 111.1.7

111.1.7

He refused to side with the latter, or to permit him to cross at the Rajghat ferry. Ali Vardi Khan placing his artillery-waggons in front of the Rajghat ferry, commenced bombarding it. The Rajah's army were unable to hold the ground in their entrenchment, and fled to the jungles. Ali Vardi Khan with troops and artillery crossed over at Rajghat, and encamped at Ramchandarpur which was at a distance of one and a half karoh from Murshid Quli Khan's encampment. Emissaries and envoys were busy for some days moving to and fro with messages of peace and war, and this sort of diplomatic parley lasted for one month. All this time Murshid Quli Khan did not advance across the ferry of Phulwar. Having regard to the wasteful expenditure on account of a huge army thus locked up, and viewing the dearth of provisions, and apprehending the approach of the rainy season as well as the raids of Mahratta freebooters, Ali Vardi Khan thought it expedient to patch up peace, and return. But Mustafa Khan, generalissimo of Ali Vardi's Afghan contingent, not acquiescing in peace, suggested entrenchments being thrown up during the rains.