Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s3.19

v1.c8.s3.19

While all this was happening to his subjects, Alivardi at first confined himself to defending his capital by forming a camp outside it, at Amāniganj and Tārakpur, and decided to put off the campaign against the enemy till the coming winter, when the reinforcements called up by him from his deputies in Purniā and Patna would reach him, and the Emperor also, who had been urgently appealed to for help, was expected to cause a diversion from the direction of Upper India. Alivardi distributed ten *lakhs* of Rupees to his troops and replenished their equipment. From Purniā and Patna his deputies reached him accompanied by 5,000 and 12,000 men respectively, before the rainy season was over.