Storia do Mogor 108.4

108.4

I leave it to the reader to imagine the confusion existing in the camp during that night, everyone imagining that Shiva Ji was in their midst and slaying all men without intermission. In this confusion Shaistah Khan's sufferings from his wound were increased from not being able to call in any surgeon for fear that, in place of a surgeon, some traitor might gain admittance. When Aurangzeb, being then in Kashmir, received a report of this treachery, it being a little after his hearing the news of Mir Jumlah's death, he wrote to Shaistah Khan directing him to proceed as governor to Bengal. In reply, Shaistah Khan prayed His Majesty to leave him in the Dakhin, for he longed to wreak vengeance for his son's death and the loss of his limb occasioned by Shiva Ji's treachery. He took upon himself either to lose his own life or to destroy Shiva Ji's army and kill Shiva Ji himself. A fresh order issued from Aurangzeb directing him peremptorily to remove to Bengal, but Shaistah Khan, anxious to gain a reputation for courage and also eager for vengeance, wrote once more to the king asking to be left in the Dakhin, where he would bear all the expenses of the war until Shiva Ji was destroyed. At the same time he wrote to his friends to save him from removal.