Muntakhab al-lubab 89: Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign, 1103 A.H. (1692 A.D.).

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 397.] In the beginning or towards the middle of this year, Aurangzeb moved from Gurgaon and Shikarpur to Bidr, and after a while from thence to Galka, one day's march from Bijapur, where the camp was pitched. The evil days of Prince Muhammad Mu'azzam now drew to a close, and it pleased the Emperor to show him kindness. * * * He directed that the shaving of the head and other rigours of prison discipline should be forbidden, and he held out to the Prince hopes of release.
The Hindi names of many places end with the letter h, which there was a tendency to pronounce like alif in such names as Malwah, Bangalah, Baglanah, and Parnalah. * * Orders were given that such names should be written with an alif, as Malwa, Bangala, Baglana, etc.
Mukhlis Khan, darogha of the artillery, reported that some of the Mahratta chiefs had taken Ram Raja, brother of the late Sambha, out of confinement, and had raised him to the raj in succession to his father and brother. They had assembled large forces with the vain intention of besieging fortresses. He sent robes and presents to the officers in command of his own forts, and, like his father and brother, he appointed different leaders to plunder the country, and to get possession of forts.