Muntakhab al-lubab 49.1

49.1

Raja Jai Singh proceeded to his command and paid his respects to Prince Muhammad Mu'azzam at Aurangabad. He then went to Puna, and having arranged the affairs of that district, he employed himself in distributing the forces under his command to ravage the country and attack the forts of the enemy. He himself proceeded to attack the forts of Purandhar and Rudar Mal, two of the most noted fortresses in the country, which had formerly belonged to Nizamu-l Mulk. The two forts were close to each other. Diler Khan was sent on in command of the advanced force. * * Diler Khan began the siege, and both the forts were invested. The garrison made a vigorous defence. * * Jai Singh arrived with his son Kesar Singh. * * After a bastion had been blown up on one side, a panic seized the defenders of the foot of the hill. The besiegers then attacked them and succeeded in making their way to the top of the hill, when the defenders called for quarter, which was granted to them by the Raja and Diler Khan. The two commandants waited upon Diler Khan, and were sent to the Raja, who disarmed the garrison, and took possession of the forts. Eighty men, horsemen, infantry and sappers, were lost in the siege, and more than a hundred were wounded. After the conquest of the two forts, Raja Jai Singh sent Daud Khan and * * with seven thousand horse to plunder and lay waste the country which Sivaji had won by force and violence.