Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s10.10

v2.c27.s10.10

The Bhāu had arrived on the north bank of the Chambal on 8th June, but halted there,† some twenty miles south of Agra, with the Utangan river (also called the *Gambhir*) interposing between him and that imperial city, till 13th July. This five weeks' inactivity can be explained partly by his uncertainty about his future line of action, but mainly by the early and excessive rainfall of that year, which prevented him from crossing the Jamunā into the Doāb and also made the raging torrent of the Utangan impassable for horses, artillery and transport carts for weeks together. Govind Ballāl's failure to build a bridge of boats near Etāwa led the Bhāu to abandon his first plan of attacking Abdāli in the upper Doāb and raiding Oudh.