Manazil al-futuh 1.1.1

1.1.1

From Kandahar, which Sultan Nadir first desolated and then founded Nadirabad in its stead, and Sultan Ahmad afterwards destroying the latter city and replacing it by that of Ahmad Shahi, the route to Kabul was as follows. [_Detailed and descriptive account of the route from Kandahar by Kabul, Peshawar, Attock and Lahore, to Dehli._] Having concluded a description of the marches along the whole length of the route, the dark-writing pen enters into a narrative of the battle fought by Ahmad Sultan Abdali Durrani, and the Hindustani chiefs who had coalesced with him, against Wiswas Rai and his deputy Bhao, who were of the Mahratta race; when, having engaged the infidel throng at the town of Panipat, he by the aid of Divine power inflicted a severe defeat, and expelled them from the face of Hindustan, insomuch that they never ventured to re-enter it for a period of twenty years. Now-a-days, since His Majesty, potent as Alexander, and famous as Solomon, the Emperor Abu-l Muzaffar Shah 'Alam the Second Badshah Ghazi Gurgani, has gone from Allahabad to the metropolis of Shah-Jahanabad, out of the power of the sword of Zu-l fikaru-d daula Najaf Khan Irani, and has brought a body of Mahrattas in his ever-victorious train, for the sake of chastising the Afghan Rohillas, this race has gained a fresh footing in Shah-Jahanabad and Agra. * *