A History of the Mahrattas v2.c34.23

v2.c34.23

² [The plain of Adas (Arass), lying between Anand and the Mahī river, was the scene of three battles in the eighteenth century. In the first (1723) the Mughal governor of Surat was, through the treachery of Pilājī Gaekwār, defeated and slain by the deputy of Nizām-ul-Mulk. At the second (1775) Raghunāth Rāo was defeated by the Marāthā confederation. The third, which took place a few months later, is that described by the author. James Forbes (1749–1819), author of Oriental Memoirs, was an eye-witness of the third battle, of which he has left an account. (I.G. Bom., 1909, i. 281–2.)]