Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c54.s7.9

v4.c54.s7.9

Next morning some Pindhāris of Holkar whom Māné had sent across the Bhīmā in boats, seized the ponies and some other property of Kunjar's army in the open plain between Gār and Dond. The heroic defenders of the Peshwā's capital deserted their post and made a panic flight from Gār to Pātas, six miles to the south-west. Even here Kunjar could not keep all of his men. Owing to the Peshwa's parsimony, these ill-fed, ill-clad, unpaid soldiers, unable to bear the rain and starvation of the Gār-camp, had been drifting back to Punā in batches for some time before; even Pātas was evacuated in a few days and the detachment recalled to Punā.