Muntakhab al-lubab 34: Disappearance of Prince Shuja'.

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[vol. ii. p. 107.] The third year of the reign began on the 24th Ramazan. * * Despatches about this time arrived from Mu'azzam Khan, reporting his successive victories and the flight of Shuja' to the country of Rakhang (Arracan), leaving Bengal undefended. It appeared that there had been several actions in which Shuja' was invariably defeated, and that after the last, he loaded two boats with his personal effects, vessels of gold and silver, jewels, treasure and other appendages of royalty. * * His son had been in correspondence with the Raja of Rakhang, (Arracan), * * and when Shuja' saw that he had no ally or friend anywhere left, and that those whom he had deemed faithful had deserted him, he conceived the idea of occupying one of the fortresses on the frontiers of the Raja of Rakhang, and addressed the Raja on the subject. * * But he was unable to carry his design into execution, and at length, in the greatest wretchedness and distress, he fell into the clutches of the treacherous infidel ruler of that country, and according to common rumour he was killed, so that no one ascertained what became of him.