Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Third Battle of Panipat" in English language version.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)At the Third Battle of Panipat (1761), Ahmed Shah Abdali had 2000 shaturnals which indicates that the popularity of these particular type of firearm was growing in the subcontinent down to the middle of the eighteenth century