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∗ Baburao Vishnu’s letter of 22nd January. He ascribes the massacre to a deliberate plan of the Rajah, and says, “The four captains of Jayappa riding in palkis were taken for Tatya and other invited chiefs, and under that wrong notion Mādho Singh went away from his darbar to the roof of his palace. His men, acting as preconcerted, closed the city gates and began to massacre the Marathas within . . . 3000 Marathas were slain and 1000 wounded.” [S.P.D. ii. 31.] Vam. Bh. 3622 gives the same figures. But another Maratha agent, Har Bāji Rām, writing from Jaipur on 7th Feb., puts the number of the dead as 1500, while Hari Vittal, writing on 12th Feb., gives the figure of five or six hundred men. [S.P.D., xxvii. 64 and 65.]