Editing Third Battle of Panipat (section)

== Legacy ==
{{Further|First Anglo-Maratha War|Second Anglo-Maratha War|Third Anglo-Maratha War}}
The valour displayed by the Marathas was extolled by Ahmad Shah Abdali in his letter to his ally, [[Madho Singh I|Madho Singh]], the king of [[Jaipur State|Jaipur]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/uday-mahurkar-on-lost-marathas-of-third-battle-of-panipat-and-rod-community/1/168513.html |title=The lost Marathas of third battle of Panipat |work=India Today |date=12 January 2012 |access-date=5 April 2017 |archive-date=11 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511123702/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/uday-mahurkar-on-lost-marathas-of-third-battle-of-panipat-and-rod-community/1/168513.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sardesai|first=Govind Sakharam|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57070|title=New History Of The Marathas Vol 2|date=1946|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57070/page/n468 444]}}</ref>

{{quote|The Marathas fought with the greatest valour which was beyond the capacity of other races... These dauntless blood-shedders did not fall short in fighting and doing glorious deeds.... Suddenly the breeze of victory began to blow... and the wretched Deccanis suffered defeat.
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The battle was referred to in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s poem "With Scindia to Delhi".

{{poemquote|Our hands and scarfs were saffron-dyed for signal of despair,
When we went forth to Paniput to battle with the [[Mleccha|~Mlech~]], 
Ere we came back from Paniput and left a kingdom there.}}

It is, however, also remembered as a scene of valour on both sides. Atai Khan, the adopted son of the Wazir Shah Wali Khan, was said to have been killed during this time when Yeshwantrao Pawar climbed atop his elephant and struck him down.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesFarEast/India_Modern_Peshwas04.htm |title=India_Modern_Peshwas04 |access-date=24 November 2019 |archive-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208100935/https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesFarEast/India_Modern_Peshwas04.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Santaji Wagh's corpse was found with over 40 mortal wounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.panipatrefinery.net/left.asp?mSection=General |title=Walking the streets of Panipat |last=Rao |first=S |publisher=Indian Oil News |access-date=8 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428055719/http://www.panipatrefinery.net/left.asp?mSection=General |archive-date=28 April 2008  |url-status=live}}</ref>