The Akbarī Generations 93.4

93.4

At last, the besieged were reduced to so desperate a condition, that they preferred being killed to a slow death by famine, and they accordingly threw themselves down from the walls of the fort into the ditch. Mírzá Sháh Husain, being aware of their distress, refrained from killing them. After a siege of one year and several months, his men, one night towards the dawn, entered the fort, and made great slaughter. All the inhabitants between the age of seven and seventy were taken prisoners. They treated most oppressively all the citizens on whom there was the least suspicion of possessing wealth, and treated them with various kinds of indignity. This took place at the close of A.H. 934. Mauláná Sa'du-lla gives an account of what happened to himself in the following words.