A History of the Mahrattas v1.c16.82

v1.c16.82

After compliments. ‘Many days have elapsed without my receiving any letter from you; and in consequence I am not in comfort. Ragoo Punt has now written, that you, having placed melancholy and gloom before yourself, do not take care of your person, or in any way attend to yourself as formerly; nor do you keep up any great was taken ill at Raigurh, occasioned by painful swelling in his knee-joint, which became gradually worse, and at last threw him into a high fever, which, on the seventh day from its commencement, terminated his existence on the 5th day of April,¹ 1680, in the 53d year of his age.