A History of the Mahrattas v1.c18.3

v1.c18.3

Prillhad Neerajee, with that ascendancy which superior minds acquire in times of real difficulty, took the lead in the consultations of this important assembly. They planned their measures with wisdom, unanimity, and firmness. They took a full view of the power and the preparations of Aurungzebe. They calculated their means of resistance, and saw without dismay a public treasury exhausted, the laxity of all discipline, the unprovided state of the forts, and even the probability of their being reduced.