Muntakhab al-lubab 66.1

66.1

[Text, vol. ii. p. 261.] At the beginning of Zi-l hijja of the twenty-second year of the reign, Aurangzeb started from Ajmir, with the intention of bringing the refractory Rajputs to punishment. * * A strict farman was sent to the Rana of Chitor, calling upon him to assent to the payment of the jizya, and directing him to bring from the territories of Jodhpur the two alleged sons of Raja Jaswant Singh. After a short stay at Ajmir, the army marched with the intention of ravaging Jodhpur, and other Rajput districts. The Rana, feeling himself incapable of resistance, sent his vakils with tribute and a letter declaring his obedience in the matter of the jizya, but offering to give over two or three parganas (districts) in commutation. He declared that he was not supporting the sons of Jaswant, and finally begged forgiveness for his offences. Aurangzeb left Khan-Jahan Bahadur to complete the arrangements in this quarter, and returned to Dehli. His journey to Ajmir and back occupied seven months and twenty days.