 In the short space of just over a quarter of a century, he forged one of the largest Muslim empires of the 18th century after the Ottomans and Qajars of Iran.The high point of his conquests was his victory over the powerful Marathas in the third Battle of Panipat 1761.In the Indian subcontinent, his empire stretched from the Indus at Attock all the way to the eastern Punjab.