A History of the Mahrattas v1.c14.34

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on horses, the property of the state. A body of this description is termed *Pagah*, or household troops, and Sivajee always placed more dependence on them than on the Sillidars, or any horse furnished on contract by individuals; with both the one and the other of the latter description, he had a proportion of his Pagah intermixed, to overawe the disobedient, and to perfect his system of intelligence, which abroad and at home penetrated into a knowledge of the most private circumstances, prevented embezzlement, and frustrated treachery.