Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c41.s2.10

v3.c41.s2.10

and faithful instruments he had written pressingly to the Peshwa, and indeed to every possible helper, including small men like Beni Hazuri, Dhokal Singh and others who were asked to send even a thousand men each. And he was daily scanning the southern horizon for signs of the approach of these reinforcements, like India’s thirsty bird looking out for the rain cloud, as a Marathi letter poetically expresses it.