Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c39.s5.15

v3.c39.s5.15

After the arrest of Nārāyandās (c. 16 January 1786), Himmat Bahadur grew alarmed about his own safety and gave up attending Sindhia's darbar lest he should share his late colleague's fate. But Mahadji paid him Rs. 20,000 as his subsistence allowance for two months and bade him remove from the camp at Dig to his estate in Vrindāvan alone, leaving all his troops, horses etc. behind, who would be paid by Sindhia after taking their muster. But the Gosāin would not agree to part with his army, his sole defence against attack. So, when Mahadji marched away from Dig towards Jaipur (16th February), he gave Himmat Bahadur leave for Vrindāvan with his contingent, on his promising to go and smooth the transfer of his jagirs to Sindhia's agents. [Ibr. ii. 154. HP. 432.]