A descendant of his covered Monson’s retreat even before this general reached the Mukunddarra Pass, and fell defending the ford of the Amjar, disdaining to retreat. His simple cenotaph marks the spot where in the gallant old style this chief “spread his carpet” to meet the Deccani host, while a British commander, at the head of a force capable of sweeping one end of India to the other, fled! The Author will say more of this in his Personal Narrative, having visited the spot. Footnote 10.5.8: This is one more of the numerous inexplicable claims which the British Government has had to decide upon, since it became the universal arbitrator. Neither party understanding their origin, the difficulty of a just decision must be obvious. This sets it at rest. [Tankhwāh, ‘wages, an assignment of revenue.’ For its technical sense _tankhwāh jāgīr_ see Rogers-Beveridge, _Memoirs of Jahāngīr_, 74.] Footnote 10.5.9: [Kamaru-d-dīn, Āsaf Jāh, son of Ghāziu-d-dīn Khān Jang, born 1671, received the title of Chīn Qilīch Khān in 1690-91; governor of Morādābād and Mālwa under Farrukhsīyar; gained supreme power in the Deccan in 1720; died May 22, 1748, the present Nizāms of Haidarābād being his successors (Manucci iv. 140; Grant Duff, _History of the Mahrattas_, 190; Elliot-Dowson vii. _passim_).] Footnote 10.5.10: [On the river Betwa, about 45 miles S.S.W. of Lalitpur.] Footnote 10.5.11: [See p. 1449.] Footnote 10.5.12: In this year, when Bajirao invaded Hindustan, passing through Haraoti, Himmat Singh Jhala was Faujdar of Kotah. In that year Sheo Singh, and in the succeeding the celebrated Zalim Singh, was born. Footnote 10.5.13: [Jai Āpa Sindhia succeeded his father, Rānoji Sindhia. His dates are uncertain, but he was probably killed at Nāgor in 1759 (Beale, _Dict. Oriental Biography_, _s.v._; _IGI_, xii. 421; Grant Duff, _Hist. of the Mahrattas_, 270).] Footnote 10.5.14: [Antha is not on the Chambal: it is about 25 miles E. of Kotah city.] Footnote 10.5.15: [Ahmad Shāh Durrāni defeated the Marāthas at Pānipat, 7th January 1761.] Footnote 10.5.16: [Near Māngrol, about 40 miles N.E. of Kotah city.] Footnote 10.5.17: It is singular enough, that Zalim Singh was born in the year of Nadir Shah’s invasion, and made his political _entrée_ in that of the Abdali. Footnote 10.5.18: [Dr. Tessitori, whose version has been followed, writes: “The second line is quite wrong, and I should not be surprised if it was made up by Col. Tod’s Pandit. I believe there was some other word in place of _tārā_.”] Footnote 10.5.19: [See Vols. II. p. 1199, III. p. 1471.] ----- CHAPTER 6