Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.15.5

33.15.5

when Djingo conferred the Government of Ser-hend on Sadyc-beg-qhan, who had been one of the trustiest men in the deceased Governor's service, and that of the Doabah on, that Governor's widow, appointing at the same time a Marhatta, called Saba, to the supreme Government of Lahor, which the new Commandant took care to extend by fresh conquests as far as the shores of the great river Atuc. Meanwhile Nedjib-ed-dowla, as well as all the Rohilla Princes, intimidated by these continual progresses of the Marhattas, concluded that their own persons and dominions must one day in the course of things be necessarily swallowed up by that overbearing power, which was constantly supported by the Vezir Umad-el-mulk's influence and intrigues. They therefore, renewed their supplications to the King of the Durrannies, and besought him to march forth to their assistance. That Prince already shocked to see how little ceremony the Marhattas had made with his son, Timur-shah, and with his Governor, Djehan-qhan, and incensed, besides, at the ingratitude of Umad-el-mulk, and at the perpetual cruelties he exercised everywhere, resolved to comply with the request. Convinced, therefore, that his arrival was ardently expected in Hindostan, he displayed his victorious standards, and turned them towards that country.