Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.12.8

19.12.8

Ram-narain being now made easy, and no intelligence coming yet of any troops being on their march from Bengal, he resolved to make a visit to Mahmed-cûli-qhan, as a preparatory step, to his kissing the footstool of the Imperial throne. In an hour, which his astrologers pronounced to be favourable, he set out for the camp in company with the Embassadors, and the persons sent by Mahmed-cûli-qhan to meet him; and he landed in that General's tent, pitched on the plain of Pûlvary. The Shah-zada hearing of his coming, prepared by Mahmed-cûli-qhan's advice, a tent of as much magnificence, as his circumstances could afford; and he placed a throne at the upper end of it, where he took up his seat, having on both sides of him, two rows of his Generals and Grandees standing, and all richly apparelled. It may be worthwhile to observe, that the day before Ram-narain's arrival, I happened to be with my father, and to say, that the Radja was extremely shrewd and cunning; and, "that as he had submitted to come so far, merely on the report of the Imperial power, and on the fame of Abûl-mansûr-qhan's troops, it was probable, that after having got a view of the weakness and misery under which they laboured in camp, he might repent of his submission so far, as to never return to camp, should he once get within the city again.