History of India . as deeply agitated; and not-withstanding that the stream of the Jumna had notyet subsided sufficiently to admit of its being forded,a royal edict was promulgated, directing his troopsto pay no regard to the current, but cross at once fromone bank to the other. As there was no help but tocomply with this mandate, on the 16th of the month ofRabi-al-awwal, 1174 a. h. (Oct. 25, 1760 ), nearShahjahanabad, on the road to Pakpat, which is sit-uated fifteen leagues to the north of Delhi, they re-signed themselves to fate, and succeeded in crossing. Anumber were swallowed up by t
History of India . as deeply agitated; and not-withstanding that the stream of the Jumna had notyet subsided sufficiently to admit of its being forded,a royal edict was promulgated, directing his troopsto pay no regard to the current, but cross at once fromone bank to the other. As there was no help but tocomply with this mandate, on the 16th of the month ofRabi-al-awwal, 1174 a. h. (Oct. 25, 1760 ), nearShahjahanabad, on the road to Pakpat, which is sit-uated fifteen leagues to the north of Delhi, they re-signed themselves to fate, and succeeded in crossing. Anumber were swallowed up by the waves, and a smallportion of the baggage and quadrupeds belonging to THE BATTLE OF PANIPAT 251 the army was lost in the passage. As soon as the intel-ligence reached Bhaos ear, that a party of Durranishad crossed, he sounded the drum of retreat from Kunj-pura, and with his force of forty thousand well-mountedand veteran cavalry, and a powerful train of Europeanartillery, under the superintendence of Ibrahim Khan. THE JUMNA AT AGBA. Gardi, he repaired expeditiously to Panipat, which liesforty leagues from Delhi towards the west. The AbdaK Shah, after crossing the river Jumna atthe landing-steps of Pakpat, proceeded in a westerlydirection, and commanded that Nawab Shuja-ad-daulahBahadur and Najib-ad-daulah should pitch their tentson the left of the royal army, and Dundi Khan, Hafiz-al-Mulk, Hafiz Rahmat Khan, and Ahmad Khan Bangashon the right. As Bhao perceived that it was difficiilt tocontend against the Durranis in the open field, by theadvice of his counsellors he made a permanent encamp-ment of his troops in the outskirts of the city of Pani-pat, and having intrenched it all round with his artil- 252 APPENDIX II lery, took up Ms quarters in this very formidable posi-tion. When the basis of the enemys power had been over-thrown at Panipat, and the sin-face of the plain hadbeen relieved of the insolent foe, the triumphant cham-pions of the victorious army proceeded eagerly
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