The newly crowned Gajapati is happy so are we because this is our first victory and we were expecting our payment of which half was given by Emperor and now it was the time for our other half payment that was promised.
Then our Gajapati Jagan declared his first order, "Everyone that are still loyal to the old Gajapati should now spent their whole lives in prison and only who are loyal to me will be permitted in this palace".
I was sitting in one of the seats he then turned towards me and said, "Al-Biruni, lord general of Pindaris. I am grateful for your contribution in helping to get my throne and about your payment this is finance minister kalvakuntl Abhinandan one of my loyalist, he will give you your rest payment".
He pointed toward Abhinandan Kalvakuntl, he was a staunch man, but inocent looking he led me, Raghuvir, Krishnaraj, and Venkatesh to our payment but it was less money then our payment I objected, "this is less, what about rest".
"Our generous Gajapati has made another plan to give you your payment".
"What is that"?
He took us to a sort of balcony and said, "This is your rest payment".
There was a large number of soldiers that included infantry, cavalry, and elephant cavalry. Lord kalvakuntl explained, "This soldiers thought of our great Gajapati as usurper and do not want to fight for him, so he assigned them to you as killing or imprisoning a big number of soldiers will not be easy and can cause a armed rebellion".
I agreed to take all of them under me so now Pindaris stand with 25,000 forces of which 20,000 alone stands as infantry, 4,900 cavalry, and 100 elephant cavalry and the commander of elephant cavalry is Alluri Abhisar.
We were then passing by the throne room lord kalvakuntl goes inside and we were leaving but we heard a shouting sound, "YOU CAN'T DECEIVE US LIKE THAT".
It was lord ser Atharv then Raghuvir whispered to me that, "I told you Samarth Rashtrakut is fool".
It appeared that the generous Gajapati did betrayed the emperor and as there could be another war like situation I took my company and ran out of the city as soon and fast as possible.
Just some distance from Kalinganagar, there was Dantapur another big city of Kaling. The city council of Dantapur welcomed us and permitted us to stay for atmost a week.
With the lord of whole province now as ruler of the kingdom, all cities now governing on its own until another lord is assigned, and by talking to mayor of city we came to know that Gajapati Jagan betrayed Rashtrakut Empire by talking all the three war heroes prisoners and also betrayed the kalachuris by breaking their trade deals.
Now let's see what my first war leads us to as I have a feeling seeing the hospitality of Dantapur that now I have become a celebrity, among the Al Hindi nobility.