Jauhar-i shamsham 1.2

1.2

Hosts upon hosts of the execrable Mahrattas brought forcibly under their subjection the territory of the Dakhin and the provinces of Gujarát and Málwá, and raised the banner of subjugation to such a pitch as to pillage and lay waste the cities, towns, and villages around Agra and Dehli, and to leave the good name and property of none, whether high or low, unmolested. An incursion of the vile forces of the enemy to the outskirts of Dehli and Agra took place regularly every year, and, exclusive of the booty of populous towns, they used to carry off by force and violence forty or fifty lacs worth of property from the open country, insomuch that the rumour of the instability of the royal house of Hind, having reached the lords and commons of all quarters of the globe, Nadir of Isfahan invaded it with his troops resembling the waves of the sea, and put all the natives of the provinces of Kabul, the Panjab and Dehli at once to the sword.