A History of the Mahrattas v2.c40.40

v2.c40.40

Holkar still lay before Kittoor, apparently in careless inactivity; when decamping suddenly, he made one march of upwards of sixty miles to Savanoor, with the Nabob of which he had been some time in correspondence. The immediate object of Holkar’s movement was an attempt to seize the person of Raghavendra Naik, one of Tippoo’s principal bankers, but he had just time to escape across the Toongbuddra, and only two or three inferior Soucars fell into Holkar’s hands, from whom he exacted a ransom of two lacks of rupees. Burhan-ud-deen, with a body of Tippoo’s troops, attacked Holkar: but the Mahrattas, joined by the Nabob of Savanoor, repulsed them; and on the ensuing night Burhan-ud-deen retired to Jereeanwutty on the Wurdah, thirty miles above Savanoor.