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Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.1.6

A Translation of the Seir Mutaqherin (Haji Mustafa) 17.1.6

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17.1.6

But at the end of that time, Djano-dji, elder son of Rhagodji-bhoslah, having been sent to Catec, invested with the office of Deputy to his father, and of Commander-in-Chief of all the Marhatta forces kept on foot for the defence of the province, fortune turned her back upon Mir-habib. As there were numbers of persons jealous of his great power, and the Mutusseddies or men of office, especially could not bear that General's strictness of command and his imperiousness of temper, they incensed the young Djanodji's mind against him. The young Prince, who presumed much upon his own opinions, and did not always pay an implicit obedience even to his father's commands, ordered Mir-habib to render his accounts. He sent for that General, made him over to the Accomptant's office; and that old soldier who had commanded during his whole life, was now obliged to pass the whole day in hearing questions and giving answers. Unfortunately for him, his troops were at some distance from the Marhatta camp, where he actually was; and, what proved still more unlucky, most of the people that had come in his retinue, being tired with the length of the sitting, had gone about their private business; so that in the evening there remained but few of his people to attend his person.