३१ जून इ. स. १७३७ दिला आहे. मोडकांच्या जंत्रीवरून तो ता. ३ जुलई सन १७३७ येतो. तेव्हां ह्या सनांचा कांहींच मेळच जमत नाहीं. मोडकांची जंत्री प्रमाणभूत मानली तर ह्या स्वारीचें साल सन १७३४ हेच ग्राह्य समजलें पा- हिजे. कारण ह्याच सालांतील तारिखा व वार ह्यांचा पेशव्यांच्या पत्रांप्रमाणे बरोबर मेळ पडतो. आतां "सियारुलमुताखरीन" ह्या फारसी ग्रंथांतील मजकुराप्रमाणे पाहिले तर त्याचा व बाजीरावांच्या पत्रांतील मजकुराचा खासा मेळ दिसतो. "* * * * On the junction of Khan Dowran with Saadet Khan six or seven days were occupied in visits and entertain- ments. This delay being perceived by the Mahrattas, they availed themselves of the circumstance to recover breath from Saadet Khan's pursuits; and turning suddenly round his rear, they marched direct on the capital, which they rightly judged to be void of troops. They advanced with such celerity that on the eighth of Zilhej of that same year, they reached Toghluck poor, under the command of Bajy Rao. This town was filled with a multitude of Mussulmans and Hindus from Delhi, who had gone thither both on account of devotion and on parties of pleasure. These were now all leisurely plundered. An im- mence booty was obtained by the Mahrattas, who having passed the night near Khwaja Kutbuddin's monument, on the following day plundered the Mina Bagh, and sacked and burned all the shops. About noon they proceeded further, sacked the town of Calem; from whence the wounded flying into the city of Delhi, alarmed the inhabitants with dreadful accounts of what they had experienced. The citizens without further inquiry lost their senses and filling the city with their uproar, the whole became one scene of dismay and confusion. The Emperor now ordered the few officers and troops that were about his person to sally forth and to repel the Mahrattas. In consequence of which, Amirkhan, Raja Bakhtmal, and Mir Husseinkhan, Cocaltashkhan, Abdulmaa-
