Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 14.11.5

14.11.5

News came at the same time that the two Afghan Commanders, with fifty thousand of their countrymen, all as great miscreants and as odious as themselves, had quitted the city of Azim-abad with all those implements of war which they had found ready assembled at their hands; and that they had encamped at the town of Bar. This intelligence having reached Aaly-verdy-qhan, who had tarried a few days at Mongher, only to afford some rest to his army, and to implore the Divine assistance, he displayed his victorious standards, and marched forwards to meet the enemy. It was at this very critical time, that Mir-habib, and Djano-dji arrived in the neighbourhood of Azim-abad, from whence they immediately sent notice of their arrival to the two Afghan Generals. These two men who had only put in execution the several parts of that mighty revolution, which had been planned by Mir-habib, but where he and the Marhattas had pointed out to them mighty benefits which they had taken upon themselves, thought that now was the time to confer with them. They went to pay a visit to Mir-habib as well as to Djano-dji, as to two men in whose service they reckoned themselves to be; for this Mir-habib had been the proposer, and first mobile of that whole affair. He was a man of a fiery temper, fertile in expedient, vindicative, and ardent in everything that tended to ruin Aaly-verdy-qhan's power; but he was very little seconded by fortune.