Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.17.7

19.17.7

As to myself, after having seen my father's junction effected with Pahluvan-sing, and made my mind easy on that head, I took my consort and family, with my brother, Seyd-aaly-qhan, and lodged in the caravansera of Keremnassa, with an intention to repair to Banares; and it is at that spot that I heard that my other brother, Ghalib-aaly-qhan, was safely arrived in that city with his consort, his mother-in-law, and his whole family. I wished to join him; but there was no crossing the Ganga, the Radja Belvent having seized, and confined under his fort at Ram-nagur, all the boats in the river, whilst his people, meanwhile, were plundering and stripping, indiscriminately, every one that came from Mahmed-cOli-qhan's army. Fain I was to return back, and to apply to Radja Pahluvan-sing for his recommendation to Radja Belvent; and this he did with the best grace in the world, requesting his friend to send an escort for my safety, to furnish me with boats, and to lodge me decently at Banares. My father was pleased to write on his side a letter to Belvent-sing, of the same purport. Having dispatched the two letters, I took some soldiers of Pahluvan-sing's with me, and set out with my family and with Seyd-aaly-qhan, by the road of Cheinpoor, which road goes along the skirts of the mountains. Naky-aaly-qhan remained with my father.