Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 10.5.3

10.5.3

but as none of them proved decisive, the latter who now received intelligence that Nadyr-shah had invaded Hindostan, thinking the Marhattas but a small object in comparison, preferred an accommodation with Badjirao, and leaving those enemies behind, he returned to the capital with all expedition. Troubles and evils of this magnitude were reckoned but small objects by a set of traitorous Grandees, who intent only on ruining each other, made no account of the consequences, if they could but compass their private ends. Nor did they make any scruples, when necessary for their purpose, to shed the blood of Mussulmen, and to slaughter a whole race of Seyds. Seif-eddin-aaly-qhan, one of those noble persons attached to the late Abdollah-qhan, had, on that Vezir's defeat, retired upon his paternal estate, where he subsisted upon a small revenue afforded by a Djaghir of Imperial gift, and a Taallook of land which had been hereditary in his family. This slender subsistence, just enough to support life, he shared with a number of old, impotent, or ruined persons of his family and dependence, and it was this small estate that proved an eyesore to Camer-eddin-qhan, and to the Turanians, who unable to bear the sight of a Seyd, and cherishing in their bosoms an enmity to the whole race, were resolved to extirpate every relation of Hossein-aaly-qhan's.