Muntakhab al-lubab 6: Defeat of Muhammad Shuja.

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[vol. ii. p. 5.] On the 4th Rabi'u-l awwal, 1068 A.H. (1st December, 1657), Dara Shukoh sent Raja Jai Singh, and several other amirs, with an army under the command (of his son) Sulaiman Shukoh against Muhammad Shuja'. When the Raja with the vanguard arrived near Benares, Muhammad Shuja' prepared his forces for battle, and having got possession of several boats, he advanced to give battle to the Raja, and halted a kos and a half from him. Next day the Raja moved from his ground early in the morning before sunrise, and while Muhammad Shuja' was yet asleep under the influence of wine, the Raja attacked him. Roused from his slumber, the incautious and careless Prince found that all was lost. He made a hurried flight with some of his servants and companions to a boat, and made his escape. All his camp and treasure, artillery, and materiel, was plundered, and fell into the hands of the Raja. After this defeat, Muhammad Shuja did not return to Bengal, and that country fell into the possession of the officers of Dara Shukoh. A number of his servants and companions were taken prisoners, and were carried off by the Raja to Agra. Dara Shukoh had them paraded round the city; afterwards he put some of them to death, and of many others he had a hand amputated.