Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.18.7

33.18.7

The Crown, therefore, devolved to his youngest son, Mado-rao, then a child, as did the management of affairs, to his brother, Ragonat-rao. This happened at the end of the year 1174. The next year his neighbour, Nizam-aaly-qhan, now surnamed the second Nizam-el-mulk, expecting to make his profit of that minority, put himself with his brother, Selabet-djung, at the head of a numerous army; and for some secret reasons which have not transpired, he set out from the Fortress of Beder, where he had been for sometime encamped, and marched directly to Aoreng-abad. But he was prevented by Ragonat-rao, who taking the young Mada-rao with him, quitted Punah at the head of a numerous army, and marched to Shah-gur, where the two armies came in sight of each other; and much skirmishing took place for several days, when Nizam-aaly, leaving his heavy baggage and other impedements at Aoreng-abad, set out with a firm intention to push for Punah. It was the 23rd of that month, in the same year. The Marhattas threw themselves in his way, but he led them, beating over and over as far as within seven cosses distance from that Capital. There was in his way a town called Toca, upon the shore of the Ganga of Decan, a place that contained a Gentoo temple, extremely revered, and where the Marhattas had raised many noble buildings. These he levelled with the ground, breaking the idol itself to pieces, and he was going to serve Puna in the same manner, when a defection appeared in his army.