Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 6.2.4

6.2.4

Such arbitrary practices having raised a general clamour against him, the Viceroy dispatched his own Paymaster, Zulficar-beg, at the head of a detachment of eight thousand men, cavalry and infantry, to put order to those rapines. Zulficar-beg having got with some difficulty over the difficult passes that are beyond Aorengabad, was marching in that tract of hilly ground which borders on the Ghandess as well as on the territory of Surat, when he discovered Candu-behari at the head of eight or nine thousand veterans, all cavalry, and all effective men, but which had been swelled by fame as far as fifteen or sixteen thousands. It was at about seventy cosses westward of Aorengabad, on the confines of the Buglana. Zulficar-beg immediately prepared to attack, but the Marhatta, who was accustomed to fight only on his own terms, declined the combat; and he went on retreating until he had drawn his enemy into a difficult country full of underwood and uneven ground. In vain Zulficar-beg's harcaras and scouts informed their master that this was not a proper spot for engaging such a set of expert free-booters as the Marhattas. He made no account of the advice; but proud of his own prowess, and full as thoughtless as a number of Seids of Barr that followed him, he fell upon them directly, and killed a number of those uncircumcised, whom he sent to the bottom of hell.