Storia do Mogor 120: Shiva Ji surrenders of his own Accord to Rajah Jai Singh.

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During the time that I was carrying out my deputation, which lasted nearly seven months, Rajah Jai Singh by his valorous enterprise gave Shiva Ji as much to do as he could manage, never letting him rest. In the end, when Shiva Ji's fortress of Banagar was invested, Jai Singh, in his foreseeing way, began to write to Shiva Ji, pointing out to him that if he would only listen to his words, things should be so arranged with Aurangzeb that he (Shiva Ji) should be propitiated and appointed by the king as governor of the Dakhin. At the same time, opening his purse, a thing which has strong influence over both hearts and tongues, he sent heavy bribes to Shiva Ji's ministers, so that, should he demand their counsel about what ought to be done, they should all tell him it were best to make an agreement with the Mogul king, since he promised to make him governor of the Dakhin. If Rajah Jai Singh went security for the royal word, he could accept the proposal. For Aurangzeb would never fail in his word, by reason of the estimation and respect in which he held that rajah.
Shiva Ji allowed himself to be persuaded by the pleasant words spoken, and the large promises made to him by the said rajah. Finding that in valour and experience this general was very different from the others who had been sent against him before, he decided to listen to Jai Singh's words and place himself in his hands. When Shiva Ji came to visit the said rajah, much anxiety was caused in our camp, everybody assuming that he must be coming to attack our army.
But when it was known that he had very few people with him, Diler Khan and Kirat Singh went out to meet him and escort him to the tent of the rajah. But he did not wait for all these preparations, and when he drew near to the tent, the rajah came out to receive him with great friendliness and politeness. Meanwhile the governor of the fortress (? Puna) went on fighting with great energy, bombarding our camp with his artillery; nor would he desist until Shiva Ji wrote to him to surrender the fortress. Thus for the time being the war with Shiva Ji was at an end. He trusted in the various letters written to him by Aurangzeb and the oaths he had sworn to him, also in the words and promises of Rajah Jai Singh. A tent was put up for him alongside the rajah's, and he had liberty to enter and leave as he pleased; he was always treated with great honour and respect. Meanwhile they awaited a reply from the court.
A few days after my arrival Shiva Ji gave himself up and came into our camp. Since I went at night to converse and play [cards] with the rajah whenever he so desired, it happened one night during this period that we were having a game, the rajah, his Brahman, and I, when in came Shiva Ji. We all rose up, and Shiva Ji, seeing me, a youth well favoured of body, whom he had not beheld on other occasions, asked Rajah Jai Singh of what country I was the rajah. Jai Singh replied that I was a Farangi rajah. He wondered at such an answer, and said that he also had in his service many Farangis, but they were not of this style. Rajah Jai Singh wanted to do me honour, and responded that as a rule Nature made a distinction between the great and the humble, and I being a rajah, she had given me a body and a mind very different from those of others. I rose to my feet as a mark of recognition for the compliment, and made the appropriate obeisance. This was the opening which afforded me occasion many times to converse with Shiva Ji, since I possessed, like anyone else in the camp, the Persian and Hindustani languages. I gave him information about the greatness of European kings, he being of opinion that there was not in Europe any other king than the King of Portugal. I also talked to him about our religion [104].