Later Mughals v2.c16.s7.2

v2.c16.s7.2

∗ As Baji Rao wrote to his brother Chimnaji Appa, from the environs of Sawai Jai-nagar on 15th Zul Hijja: “Entrusting my heavy baggage (bungah) to Rajah Jagat Raj of Bundelkhand and sending it to Bundelkhand, I became lightly equipped......Saadat Khan had written to the Emperor and the amirs many such false stories as that he had defeated the Mahratta army which had crossed the Jamuna,—of whom 2,000 horsemen had been slain and 2,000 drowned in the river, including Malhar Holkar and Vitoba Bule,—and that he was driving the Mahrattas back beyond the Chambal ......This report had been sent to me by Dhondo Govind......I decided to go and burn the city of Dihli and make the Emperor see that the Mahrattas exist.........So I started on 26th Zul Qada, leaving the king’s highway and making long marches......Covering forty miles a day, in two marches I arrived at Dihli, near Kushbandi, on 7th Zul Hijja, leaving Barapula and Kalika’s temple on my right hand.” (Brahmendra-Swami Charitra, letter 27.) [J. Sarkar.]