Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 10.4.4

10.4.4

With these ideas he wrote him several letters, in which "under the most sacred oaths, he assured him that he was setting out to join him, and recommended his waiting a little until he might proceed with him on the destruction of those freebooters, but by all " means advised him to avoid all precipitation." Saadet-qhan, who had just mounted his horse, found himself stopped short by these letters of the Minister's, and greatly at a loss how to act. Nevertheless, he thought proper to suspend his march, and three or four days after, he was joined by QhandoSran who, on the approach of the Marhattas, had been ordered by the Emperor to join Saadet-qhan with several other Lords and Commanders. All this while the Vezir Camer-eddin-qhan was encamped at thirty cosses from the capital, on the high road of Adjmir; and Mahmed-qhan-bangash, with his body of troops, was also on that side, waiting the arrival of the enemy. On the junction of QhandoSran with Saadet-qhan, six or seven days were spent in visits and entertainments, and this delay having been perceived by the Marhattas, they availed themselves of it to recover breath from Saadet-qhan's pursuit; and turning suddenly his rear, they marched straight to the capital, which they rightly supposed to be empty of troops. This they did with so much rapidity, that on the eighth of that Zilhidj of that same year, they were at Toghloc-pur, under the command of Badiirao, Generalissimo of that nation.