Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.11.3

12.11.3

He also wrote to Baladji-rao, who was Commander-in-Chief of all the Marhatta forces, and he laid his commands upon him to this purport: "That as great sums accrued to his benefit from the payments made him by the Imperial treasury on account of the Chout, and those payments were likely to suffer greatly from the ravages made in Bengal by the insolent freebooters, sent thither by Rago-dji-bhoslah, under the command of Bha-suker-pandet; it was proper he should repair thither to inflict such a chastisement on those plunderers as might deter them from ever renewing their insolencies again." Whilst the Emperor was writing to the Viceroy, and exerting the Marhatta General, Aaly-verdy-qhan was assembling a numerous army with a great train of artillery; and having invoked the assistance of the Omnipotent succourer, he quitted the city, accompanied by his two sons-in-law, by his kinsman, Abdol-aaly-qhan, and by a great number of persons of distinction, attached to his person. Nevazish-mahmed-qhan, his eldest nephew, was left in the city with his brigade and a sufficient number of troops for the protection of that Capital, in which he was appointed Deputy Governor. So that the Viceroy quitted the suburbs on the decline of the rainy season, indeed, but whilst the ground was yet miry and intersected by an infinity of waters; such being his eagerness to fight Bha-sukur, and his settled resolution to drive those ravagers out of Bengal.