Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.18.8

33.18.8

For Mir-moghol, surnamed Nassyr-el-mulk, sixth son of Nizam-el-mulk's, having conceived some disgust against his brothers, joined his concerns with Radjah Ram-chunder, a Commander of importance in Nizam-aaly's army, and both departed and joined the Marhattas. This officer was shocked at the little regard shewn to the Gentoo temple, and thought his conscience concerned. This defection happened the twenty-seventh of the first Djemady, of the year 1174, The Gentoo Commander carried his whole brigade with him, and it was a numerous one. After that junction, matters altered considerably; and the Marhattas, who had the worst all along this campaign, now spread themselves round the Mussulman army on the very next day, and commenced a furious cannonade. This kind of warfare not pleasing the valorous and the zealous in Nizam-aaly's army, they advanced beyond their own artillery, and proceeded to hand-blows; when mixing with those men that fought at a distance, they stretched vast numbers of them in the field of battle, amongst which were several relations of both Madhu-rao, and Ragonat-rao, which latter fought on foot that day. The Marhattas, sensible now that they were an undermatch for their enemies, thought proper to retreat, and to encamp at a distance, in order to consult together. They found that all their efforts had hitherto availed nothing, and that the enemy was now at seven cosses from Punah, which he intended to set on fire;