In this treaty Janoji’s Dependence on the Peshwa was fully acknowledged. He bound himself to furnish a contingent of 6,000 men and to attend the peshwa in person whenever required to by an annual tribute of 5 lakhs of rupees; to enter into no general negotiation with foreign powers and to make no war without the Peshwa’s sanction. On his return Journey to Nagpur in May 1772 he died at Tuljapur on the river Godavari. During his reign the country of Nagpur except on two occasions had perfect peace within its boundaries. Janoji’s name is remembered as the settler of what his father only conquered. In his private life he was easy of access, and most regular in the observance of all duties of state and of religion.      After the death of Janoji, before Mudhoji, with his youthful son Raghuji the late king’s nephew and heir by adoption, could reach Nagpur, Sabaji, another brother of Janoji had usurped the government. During the next two years and-a-half a civil war raged, diversified in 1773 by a short reconciliation and joint government, and characterized by repeated desertion of either party by Darya Bai, widow of the late Raja janoji, who now supported one claimant to the throne and now the other. The closing scene of this contrast was on the battlefield of Panchgaon, six miles south of Nagpur. The fortune of the day had declared for Sabaji, and mudhoji was being surrounded by his brother’s troops. Flushed with the fight and with victory, Sabaji drove his elephant against that on which his brother was seated, and called on him to surrender. A pistol, shot was the only reply. One brother had slain the other, and gained the undisputed regency on behalf of his son, and the title of Sena Dhurandhar. Mudhoji at once set about restoring order in the affairs of the state, governing wisely and moderately in the year 1777 he entered with caution in to engagements with the English, who were then preparing to support the claims of Raghoba as peshwa. He was obliged, however, in order to keep up appearances at Poona to send troops down to Cuttack ostensibly against them.