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 DECLINE OF MAEATHA POWER 249 and all on this side of it should belong to htm; but the whole rainy season was spent in negotiation, and no peace was established. In the interim, Raja Suraj Mai Jat, who discerned the speedy downfall of the Maratha power, having moved with his troops in company with Imad-al-mulk, the vizir, from his position at Sarai Badarpur, which is situated at a distance of six leagues from Delhi on the eastern side, and trave^d fifty leagues in one night, without informing Bhao, betook himself to Ba- lamgarh, which is one of his forts. As the Maratha troops made repeated complaints to Bhao regarding the scarcity of grain and forage, the latter, on the 29th of the month of Safar, 1174 A. H. (Oct. 9, 1760 A. D.), removed Shah Jahan, son of Muhi'u-s Sunnat, son of Kam Bakhsh, son of Aurangzib 'Alamgir, and having seated the illustrious prince, Mirza Jawan Bakht, the grandson of 'Alamgir H, on the throne of Delhi, publicly conferred the dignity of vizir on Shuja-ad-daulah. His object was this, that the Durrani Shah might become averse to and suspicious of the Nawab in question. Leaving Narad Shankar Brahmin, of whom mention has been made above, be- hind in the fort of Shahjahanabad, he himself set out, with all his partisans and retainers, in the direction of Kunjpura. This place is fifty-four leagues to the west of Delhi, and seven to the north of the sub-district of Karnal, and it is a district the original cultivators of which were the Rohillas. Bhao, on the 10th of Rabi-al-awway, 1174 A. H. (Oct.