Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s10.12

v2.c27.s10.12

† I was at first tempted to regard Pahārī, 16 m. n. e. of Dholpur, 26 m. s. of Agra, and midway between the Utangan (now called Bān-gangā) and the Chambal, as the Bhau's halting place. It exactly agrees with his known movements. But in Raj. i. 188, Pahārī-war means the hilly country north-west of Sironj and not a village named Pahārī, as the Bhau's route north of the Chambal was still uncertain. "From the difficulty with which its flood-stream is crossed, the Utangan takes the title of Ghorā-pachhār or Overthrower of Horses....Its character is essentially that of a mountain torrent...Its bed, 800 feet wide, is of sand mixed with shingle,...it runs between lofty banks cut up by numerous ravines, some of which penetrate deeply into the adjoining lands." N. W. P. Gazetteer, vii. 423.