Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 6.3.3

6.3.3

and so early as the latter end of Aoreng-zib's reign, Tara-baï, the relict of Ram-radja, had supplicated that Prince to put an end to the miseries of mankind by granting her a Des-mucky, in lieu of all her pretensions, that is, a tenth of the revenue of the six provinces that composed the Viceroyalty of Decan. This proposal met with a flat refusal, whether out of avarice and parsimony, or from a principle of honour, and a delicacy upon the discredit that would fall on the Mussulman religion should he comply with such a disgraceful proposal. The Prince's ambassadors, however, now joined to those of Sahö-radja, were more favourably received at the court of Bahadyr-shah. But this Prince, who wished for some rest, was disappointed in his wishes, by the dissensions which soon after took place between the Prince's relict and the reigning Prince; and matters remained on that uncertain footing until the times of the famous Daüd-khan-peni, who governed all those countries as Lieutenant of the Vezir Zulficar-khan. This Lieutenant, for whose prowess and bodily strength the Marhattas entertained the highest respect, and who lived in a commerce of amity and brotherhood with them, found means to bring them to this agreement: — "That they would henceforward abstain from any demands on such tracts and territories as were held in appanage by the Princes of the Royal blood;