Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.19.7

33.19.7

The date of this expedition has been conserved in the following verses of the composition of Mir-evlad-mahmed-zeca, nephew to Mir-gulam-aaly, the freed, that famous Poet of Belgram, and here is the chronogram of that event, in the last verse of the following quartrain: "This second Assef-dja, as powerful as Solomon, "Has burned and ruined the Capital of those Brahmans. "Hear the date from your keen-sighted Poet Zeca: "The Mussulman army has set on fire Pünah." Whilst Nizam-aaly was sacking Pünah, Ragonat-rao was before the walls of Haider-abad, exerting every nerve to make himself master of the city. But the Governor, Dilir-qhan, the Aoreng-abadian, had so well encouraged the citizens, had raised such a body of troops, made such a provision of necessaries, and disposed every thing so ably and with so much order, that all Ragonat's attacks and efforts proved abortive, and they ended only in his losing a great number of men. So that finding himself baffled here also, he fell back and retreated. The remainder of this singular campaign is not come to my knowledge, in such a manner as to enable me to speak of it properly. Nevertheless, although little is to be expected from my slender abilities, I hope to be able to give a proper account of it, as soon as I acquire more particulars and more certain information on the subject.