Item CR9/11/48. - Letter from Ram Narayan,

I have already sent you a reply to your earlier letter along with a report form the capital [Delhi]. Mr Amyatt has passed on your message you had sent to him recently. As far as the case of saltpetre is concerned, before receiving the saltpetre from the province of Ghazipore and sending Mustafa Quli Khan to the province of Bilya/Bitya I had sent you a full report. Staff and servants are quite happy and satisfied. I had received another report from the capital Delhi. This is enclosed for your information. -- Enclosure: Report from: Murlidhar. Report of the affairs in the West is that on the 17th of Safar, San 5 a large army entered Shahjahanabad. The son of Appaji is also coming to Shajahanabad. Prince Ali Gohar is still in Miranpore in Bengal and has only three thousand horsemen left with him; the rest have abandoned him and have run away. The Prince gets an allowance of two thousands and two hundred rupees a day from the brother of Najib Khan. Najib Khan has crossed the Ganges. The Prince tells Najib Khan that he is surrounded by Rohillas and he should help him to get away. The Emperor and Nawab Wazir have confiscated Bundi in the district of Bhuna and they have taken three hundred horses, one Lac and eighty thousand rupees, provisions and domestic animals. Afterwards, the Sardar of Bundi came to see them on the recommendation of Musa Khan Baloch and Nawab Ghazi al-Din and asked him to pay five Lac rupees from the loot of Hissar and then to settle the affairs of his state with Muhammad Shah. Because of these terms and conditions the Sardar of Bhind ran away at night and went to Fathabad. Nawab Ghazi al-Din Khan gave chase and surrounded the place. A battle took place but the Sardar managed to escape at night and went to Sirsa Patan. They have recovered four palanquins, four tents, four cannons, fourteen thousand rupees as well as a large quantity of food, animals, etc., from Fathabad. The emperor is staying in Fathabad and Nawab Ghazi al-Din has taken off with his army to attack Sirsa Patan and a battle is in progress there. The Jat has sent a letter demanding twenty Lac rupees and that they should give him three fortresses from the territory of Bundi. Rajah Thakur Mall has gone to see Suraj Mall Jat. The Jat is therefore encamped near Palwal. Another, contemporary translation is CC2/5, entry nos.184, 186.