Muntakhab al-lubab 143: The Rajputs.

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[vol. ii. p. 661.] The march of the royal army to lay waste the land of the Rajputs awakened these rebellious people to a sense of their danger. They sent representatives to make friends of Khan-khanan Mu'azzam Khan and Mahabat Khan, and through their intervention to obtain peace. The Emperor was in some points unwilling to concede this; but the troubles near Lahore and Dehli disturbed him, and he yielded to the representations of the vakils for the sake of being at liberty to punish these infidel rebels. It was settled that Raja Jai Singh, Raja Ajit Singh, and the vakils of the Rana and other Rajputs, should make their homage, put on the robes presented to them, and accompany the royal train. All the Rajputs of name and station, forming a body of thirty or forty thousand horse, passed in review; they tied their hands with handkerchiefs, and paid homage in front of the cavalcade. Robes, horses, and elephants were then distributed.