Muntakhab al-lubab 110.2

110.2

After the surrender of Sattara, Aurangzeb marched against Parli, the commandant of that fort having been diverted by his advisers from his intention of surrendering. Parli is a more lofty fort than Sattara, and it had been put into a state of preparation. * * On the 10th Zi-l hijja many men were killed in an attempted assault, but in a short time the garrison was pressed very hard. The besiegers were greatly incommoded by the heavy rain, which in this part of the country falls for five months without an hour's interval by night or day, and by lack of supplies, the convoys being cut off by the enemy who swarmed around. * * The garrison showed great daring in coming suddenly down the hill and attacking the besiegers; but the repeated attacks and the daring of Fathu-llah Khan at length prevailed, and a proposition of capitulation was made. At the beginning of Muharram, after a siege of a month and a half, the fortress was taken, and the men of the garrison marched out with their families and their old clothes. * * The name of Sattara was changed to A'zam-tara, and of Parli to Nauras-tara.