Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c16.s5.4

v1.c16.s5.4

But the mud-walls of Kumbher laughed the Marātha siege to scorn, as those of Bharatpur did the British half a century later. Skirmishes took place between the rival foraging parties, in which many were slain. The siege dragged on for four months. At last in the middle of May, peace was made; Ruprām, on behalf of his master, gave a written bond to pay the Marāthas Rs. 30 *lakhs* by instalments in three years. In addition to this, the two *krores* which had been previously imposed by Imād as *peshkash* due from the Jāt Rājah to the Emperor, was now agreed to be paid to Imād and the Marāthas instead. So the siege ended; Imād left the place on 18th May and Raghunāth Rāo on the 22nd, and both came to Mathurā. [*TAh.* 108*b*-110*a*, 114*a*, 117*b*, 121*b*, 128*a*. *Sujān Charitra*, Jang vii. incomplete. *S.P.D.*, xxvii, 79, and p. 94.]