Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.18.9

33.18.9

and if that comes to pass, said they, what are we fighting for? They were also much affected by a deputation of the inhabitants of Punah, who asked them, whether they intended to see their habitations on fire, and to deliver their children and families to the Mussulmen? The Marhattas greatly affected by this remonstrance, as well as by their own situation, sent Ambassadors to Nizam-aaly, to treat of an accommodation. Nizam-aaly consented, and sold them a peace for several Districts, which they ceded to him from the Provinces of Aoreng-abad and Beder, to the amount of twenty-seven lacs a year. This treaty took place the sixth of the second Djemady, just one year after the Abdalies had gained that memorable victory over the Marhattas. Nizam-aaly, after so advantageous a peace, marched back to his Capital, and by the way he turned towards Ramchunder's country to punish him for his desertion. That whole tract was given up for plunder to the army, and it was completely ravaged and ruined. The rainy season setting in at this time, (and this was about the fourteenth of Zilhidj, in the year 1175) he took up his winter quarters at Beder, and that same day he confined in the citadel his brother, Selabet-djung: a confinement in which he lived fifteen months; after which death came to his relief, and having delivered him from the confinement of his prison, it carried his soul to the spacious plains of eternity, where it let it loose.