भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

your Excellency have the ability to dilate upon this topic? The Vazir was extremely pleased to hear these tidings (and said) “His Excellency is truly an incarnation of God. How can a human being praise Him sufficiently’? Your humble servant (i.e. I) has no other safe shelter anywhere except at your feet. If your Honour is likely to encamp at Lahore, I will come there with the Emperor and his Vazir. The Vazir and all others, great and small, fear that in case your Excellency were not to encamp, the Pathans are likely to return to Lahore in the rainy season. I have just set down here what the people say. Your Honour’s is the right to decide upon the course of action to be followed. May your Excellency be kind enough to let this humble servant know whether the proposal of bringing the Vazir and the Emperor there is fair or otherwise, and your Excellency’s orders in this respect are awaited. Vithal Shivdev would escort them there if Your Honour so pleases. Krishnarao (Kale), too, might come, and put before Your Honour everything.”—5.5.1758. The report on the conquest of Punjab sent by Raghunathrao Peshwa Himself 1071. Now letters-after-letters followed in quick succession from Shreemant Nanasahib at Poona asking Raghunathrao to return along with his army to the South before the monsoons set in. But as Punjab had been very recently conquered, it was absolutely essential that proper system had to be urgently laid down for the governance and administration of the vast territory. As such, it was desirable that Raghunathrao should entrench himself there with all his army for another four months. All the ablest Maratha leaders and army commanders thought and urged that Raghunathrao had better not to go to the Daccan along with Malharrao Holkar. But Raghunathrao Dada and Malharrao Holkar, too, were in their heart of hearts inclined to go to the South. Now that Nanasahib had ‘called’ him back, Raghunathrao himself sent an authentic report, penned by himself, to Shreemant Nanasahib about the unprecedented success in Punjab, and began his return march towards Poona. Many other Maratha Sardars, including the one of the status of Malharrao Holkar, returned to the Deccan along with Raghunathrao. Of course, in order to maintain the Maratha rule unhampered in Punjab the requisite Maratha forces were stationed at different places by Raghunathrao under some Sardars. 1072. Although it was quite possible to describe the valour of the Marathas in this campaign in Punjab in the grand style of an epic or heroic