Tadhkirah i Anand-Ram “Mukhlish” 1.4

1.4

They understood at length that this was no ordinary foe against whom they had to contend, no mere plunderer who would be sated with the spoil of a province and then return to his own country, but a leader of unshakeable resolution, who shaped his course with the sword. If, even at this juncture, the Emperor had sought to conciliate Nawab Sahib A'azzu-d daula Bahadur, Nazim of Multan and Lahore, and had supplied this fierce chieftain with the sinews of war as such an emergency required, then indeed might the world have witnessed a very different result. As it was, when the Emperor learned from the news-writers the advance of the Persian army to Attock, he, on the 1st of the blessed month of Ramazan, appointed Asaf Jah Bahadur Wakilu-s Saltanat, I'timadu-d daula Chin Bahadur Waziru-l Mamalik, and Amiru-l umara Bahadur to be Bakhshi-u-l Mamalik, for the defence of the monarchy, and with his own hands bound on the heads of the chiefs a malaband of Burhanpur workmanship. That same day these noblemen left the city for their camp, which was pitched near the Shalamar gardens. They received one kror of rupees in cash, and cannon and munitions of war in abundance. Besides their own troops, 50,000 horsemen were given to them.