Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.3.3

33.3.3

Nasyr-djung, who was then at Aoreng-abad, hearing of this event, resolved to chastise his cousin, and although that Capital is at no less than five hundred measured cosses from the sea-coast, on which is seated the town of Pülcherry, he hastened thither on the wings of expedition and resentment; and so early as the sixth of the second Rebi, in the year 1163, he engaged Hedaiet-muhi-eddin-qhan, and totally defeated him. The victory was at first disputed, but the zephyr of Divine assistance was at last pleased to blow upon Nassyr-djung's drooping standards. Hedaiet-muhi-eddin-qhan was taken prisoner, and the victorious Prince, finding that the rainy season was at hand, took up his winter-quarters at Arcat. He had in his army a body of Afghans settled in the Carnatic, and commanded by Himmet-qhan, and some other officers of that nation. Those ungrateful wretches, forgetful of the favours conferred upon them by both the father and son, and unmindful of the gratitude and attachment they owed him in return, conceived the design of stripping their Lord both of his treasures and dominions; and joining with the Prince's prisoner, and the French of Pûlcherry, they, on the seventeenth of Moharrem, according to Astronomical computation, and the sixteenth, according to the vulgar one, fell on that Prince's quarters at midnight, and filled them with confusion and disorder.