Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.12.5

42.12.5

Two or three days after the battle, the field being strewed with dead, scavengers were sent amongst them with orders to cut off all the heads ; and about fifty cart-loads of heads, spears, and bucklers were collected and sent to the Citadel of Aoreng-abad. It is in this manner that the renowned General, without ever being at a loss for expedients, used to gain endless victories under Aoreng-zib's auspices. — Here ends the quotation from Hashem-aaly-qhan. It was such victorious Generals and such Lords, prodigal of their blood, that Aoreng-zib was continually disgusting by his suspicions and a cautiousness that had no end and no term. It is such men he was continually accusing in assemblies of purblind Cazies, and hood-winked ecclesiastics, who condemned such men to exiles, and to confiscations of djaghirs ; a fatal blindness, the consequence of which was, that after spending so many years of his life in those expeditions, and squandering away all the corors of the Empire, he found himself farther than ever from bringing the Decan under proper controul ; so far from it, that he inured the Marhattas to wars and to laborious campaigns ;