Muntakhab al-lubab 54.4

54.4

Orders were sent to the provincial governors, and to the officials in all directions, to search for Sivaji, and to seize him and send him to the Emperor. Raja Jai Singh, who just at this time had retired from Bijapur, and had arrived at Aurangabad, received orders to arrest Nathuji before the escape of Sivaji became public, and to send him to Court. After that he was to watch carefully for the bird escaped from the cage, and not suffer him to re-establish himself in his old haunts and to gather his followers around him. * * It is said that Sivaji made such expedition in his flight that no courier could have overtaken him. But his son Sambha, a boy of tender years, was with him, and he suffered so much from the rapid motion, that Sivaji left him behind at Allahabad, in charge of a Brahman, a man of high repute in that place, whose relations in the Dakhin had been closely connected with Sivaji's father. Sivaji placed a sum of money with the Brahman and commended the boy to his care. He was not to part from him until he received a letter in Sivaji's own hand; and if he obtained certain intelligence of Sivaji's death, he was to act as he deemed best.