Storia do Mogor 335.4.4

335.4.4

However, Dā,ūd Khan was not without apprehension, for he felt great fear of not being able to resist these bold Mahrattahs. This fear compelled him to send an envoy, through whom he asked as a favour that nothing might be undertaken against him. As a return he would give the raiders a present of two hundred thousand rupees. The commanders sent the man away, having simply turned their backs on him, saying that Dā,ūd Khan need not concern himself about giving them money; it belonged to them already, and they would take good care that they collected it. On hearing this depressing news Da,ud Khan was much cast down. It is for this reason that he quitted Arkat, and fortified himself in the upper part of the fortress of Velours (Vellur), this being the strongest place to be found in the Karnatik of Gulkandah.