Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 6.6.2

6.6.2

He was also attended by all the Crown-servants of Decan; some of their own accord, and some much against their own will. His army as numerous as the billows of the sea, covered the whole plain. His cavalry alone, amongst which were ten or twelve thousand Marhattas, amounted to full thirty thousand horse. The infantry was innumerable, as numbers of Mansobdars, or Military officers, who had never moved from their homes for either Viceroy or Prince of the Blood, had now been obliged to attend. As to the fortresses, some, like Ahmed-abad, were garrisoned by himself, and some he left to be garrisoned by the Marhattas. All these arrangements being taken, and some days spent in dispatching business about Bôrhanpûr, he departed; and proceeding by continual marches, he crossed the river that flows by Acbarpûr. On his arrival at Mandou, he was met by Yqhlass-khan, the nobleman that had been sent by the Emperor to sooth Hossein-aaly-qhan's mind, and to prevail upon him to return to Decan. This nobleman in a private audience recounted, "How an accommodation had been two different times agreed to, and two different times broke; how the seeds of discontent and dissension seemed to shoot up everywhere; how the Grandees of the Empire were flocking to the capital;