Riyaz al-salatin 101.5

101.5

Being thus taken by surprise, he woke up from his slumber, and mounting a female elephant, he moved about restlessly. But the game was already up, especially as Raja Jai Singh making a dashing flank movement from the left side, closed in upon him. Seeing no alternative, Shah Shuj'a got into his war-vessels which he had brought up from Bengal, and sailed down swiftly, abandoning his treasures, guns, horses, baggages and tents. Sailing swiftly down Patna, he reached Mungir, and prepared to fortify it, and halted there for some days. Sulaiman Shekoh's army, after plundering and ravaging and slaughtering and capturing, followed up Muhammad Shuj'a, and reached Mungir. Muhammad Shuj'a, finding it impossible to stand his ground there, fled with the swiftness of lightning and air, and entered Akbarnagar (Rajmahal). The Imperial army reduced to subjection the Subah of Patna and Behar. But in the meantime, Aurangzeb had marched from the Dakhin towards the Imperial Presence, and on the outskirts of the Narbadda had fought an engagement with a numerous horde of Imperialists, and after sanguinary fightings had inflicted a signal defeat, and had marched to Shahjahanabad, and entered the Capital. Deputing his eldest son, Sultan Muhammad, to be near the Emperor, Aurangzeb put the latter under surveillance, and killed Dara Shekoh after much warfare, and in the holy month of Ramzan 1069 A.H. ascended the Imperial throne of Delhi.