Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.6.6

33.6.6

No respect, no regard was paid to it, — but let us pass in silence over all those horrors, — for past is what is past. — O God preserve us; preserve all the Imamites from such days as these. After six months' slaughter and ruin, both parties became tired of such a life, and both seemed desirous of a peace. The Emperor and his Ministers sent the first message; and the Vezir, who was tired of the immense expenses he daily incurred, and who augured no good from all these troubles, gave his consent. Intyzam-ed-dowlah served as mediator in the terms of the agreement; and this was, that the two Governments of Ilah-abad and Aod should be left to the Vezir. These terms having been agreed to, the latter in the beginning of the year 1167, set out for those countries, and left the field to Mir-sheab-eddin. This daring young man had, during the war with the Vezir, called to his assistance from Malva, the Marhatta General Holcar-malhar, under promise of a high pay; but he arrived after the conclusion of the peace. Nevertheless, as the Minister was highly exasperated against the Djatts for their connections with the Vezir, and the assistance they had given him, and as on the other hand, he was fond of remaining in power, he availed himself of the arrival of the Marhatta troops to fall upon the Djatt Surudj-mull.