Riyaz al-salatin 111.4.6

111.4.6

Bhaskar and twenty-one other Mahratta Generals were butchered. In the midst of this carnage, Mahabat Jang mounting an elephant ordered the music of victory to be struck up, and ordered his select battalion to charge the Mahratta army with their swords. On seeing this, one of the Mahratta Generals, who was posted outside the pavilion with ten thousand cavalry, fled together with his force. Mahabat Jang's soldiers pouncing like fighting lions on this flock of sheep fiercely attacked the Mahratta troops, and slaughtered them, right and left, raising human shambles, and captured those who escaped the sword. On hearing of this disaster, other Mahratta detachments which were encamped at Bardwan and Diknagar, &c, or patrolled the tracts between Mednipur and Akbarnagar (Rajmahal) fled to Nagpur. When news of this disaster reached the ear of Raghoji Bhoslah, He knitted his brow, from fury of rage, And coiled, like a serpent, from anxiety of lost treasures. He kindled such a fire of wrath in his heart, That he scorched himself from head to foot. After the rainy season was over, Raghoji Bhoslah mobilised a large force, and marched towards Bengal, to avenge the slaughter of Bhaskar and other Mahratta Generals, and engaging on massacres, captures, and plunders, tortured many of his cap- Vardi's Subadar in Orissa. His name was Dulab Ram, and he was a son of Rajah Janoki Ram, Ali Vardi's Peshkar.