[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Bengal, Orissa and the North-East](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east) › [Riyāẓ al-salāṭīn](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin) › [The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam) › 111.3.3 # Riyaz al-salatin 111.3.3 The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam) 111.3.3 - **Language:** English ### [111.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.111.3.3) Thus diverting the freebooters with the work of picking up coins, Mahabat Jang seized this respite, and with the celerity of lightning and wind riding out at full gallop arrived at Bardwan. The hungry troops, who for three days and nights had not seen the face of food-stuffs, quenched the fire of their hunger with the stores of Bardwan. The army of Mahratta freebooters followed up in pursuit. Sacking villages and towns of the surrounding tracts, and engaging in slaughters and captures, they set fire to granaries, and spared no vestige of fertility. And when the stores and granaries of Bardwan were exhausted, and the supply of imported grains was also completely cut off, to avert death by starvation, human beings ate plantain-roots, whilst animals were fed on the leaves of trees. Even these gradually ceased to be available. For breakfasts and suppers, nothing except the discs of the sun and the moon feasted their eyes. And for nights and days together, being constantly mounted on their high saddles, they did not even dream of sleep. The Afghan and Bhaliah troops becoming desperate, determined to die hard. Mahabat Jang, seeing signs of defeat, owing to the exhausted condition of his soldiery, held a Council of War. - [Previous: 111.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.111.3.2) - [Next: 111.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.111.3.4) - [Up: 111.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.111.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.111.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.111.3.3) · Pramāṇa