Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s1.65

v2.c28.s1.65

These desultory and bloody affrays, though they kept the king’s troops in perpetual alarm and lost them myriads of men, thinned the ranks of the defenders of Maru, who again took refuge in the Aravalli. From thence, watching every opportunity, they darted on their prey. On one occasion they fell upon the garrison of Jaitaran, which they routed and expelled, or as the chronicle quaintly says, “ with the year 1739 they also fled.” At the same time, the post of Sojat was carried by Bija Champawat, while the Jodhawats, under Ram Singh, kept their foes in play to the northward, and led by Udaibhan attacked the Mirza Nur Ali at Charai : “ the contest lasted for three hours ; the dead bodies of the Yavans lay in heaps in the Akhara ; who even abandoned their Nakkaras.” ²