Tarikh-i Muzaffari 3.9

3.9

Intelligence now reached the royal camp that Malhar Rao had gone to Dehli with 50,000 horse, to bring one of the royal princes out of Salimgarh. The receipt of this news greatly alarmed the Emperor. * * Malhar Rao approached the royal camp, and after consulting with 'Akibat Mahmud Khan, opened fire upon it with rockets and muskets. * * The Emperor, without even consulting with his friends, resolved to go off to Dehli with Sahiba Zamani, his mother, * * and reached the citadel with his party. * * In the morning Intizamu-d daula found that he had not more than three or four hundred men left, * * and hastened off to Dehli with the Mahrattas in pursuit. All the artillery and camp equipage fell into their hands, and the Emperor's mother was taken, and her equipage plundered. * * Next day 'Imadu-l Mulk came up to the deserted forces, in which there was neither spirit nor power left. He consoled them, and by kindness won them to his own side. He waited on the Empress mother, to pay his respects, and make his excuses, * * and she proceeded on her way to Dehli. 'Imadu-l Mulk and Malhar Rao walked a few paces on foot in attendance upon her. They followed to Dehli. When Jayapa Mahratta saw that these two chiefs had gone off, and that he alone could not effect the reduction of Kumbher, he raised the siege, and went in the direction of Narnaul. Suraj Mal was thus relieved.