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