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∗ Chāh-i-urchindāri (Turki for bāoli), Imād-us-sādat, 190. It seems to refer to Gaddiwāra of the map, half a mile south-west of the shrine of Ghaus Ali Khan, south of Panipat. The correct date of this battle is given in two contemporary Marathi letters [Raj. vi. 406 and i. 272n.] Kashiraj gives 22 Rabi-us-sani [=1 Dec.] wrongly for the 12th (or 13th) of that Hijeri month. Karnal Dist. Gaz. p. 32,—"The Maratha line of entrenchments can still be traced on the plain between Risalu and Panipat. The Durranis encamped close in front of them, on the plains north of Risalu and Ujaon." The latter statement cannot be true, because the contemporary records, both Marathi and Persian, say that the Shah encamped three miles south of the Maratha trenches. This would place his front south of the Siwah and Dhadaula villages, four miles south of the southern boundary of Panipat city,—or even further to the south, *i.e.*, along the Dimana—Pasina Khurd line.