Storia do Mogor 13.1.7

13.1.7

This must have been subsequent to January 30, 1678, the date on which Shah 'Alam returned to Dihli from Kabul. On September 28, 1678, Shah 'Alam was made governor of the Dakhin, and Manucci went there in his train. He says once that he was at Agrah in 1679, and possibly the occasion was on this march to the Dakhin. On September 6, 1679, Shah 'Alam's thirty-seventh birthday, they were at Aurangabad; but not long before this (December 18, 1678) Jaswant Singh of Jodhpur had died in Kabul, and Aurangzeb, after failing to seize one of the rajah's infant sons, resolved on the conquest of the Jodhpur state. Shah 'Alam was recalled to take part in the campaign, and the prince (Manucci with him) passed the rains of 1680 at Ujjain (II. 204). In January, 1681, they joined the main army at Ajmer, having seen a comet on their way (December 24, 1680). Prince Akbar had just fled (January 13, 1681), and had raised the standard of revolt. On the 26th Shah 'Alam was sent in pursuit, and remained on this duty until the end of March (1681). Some sort of peace was patched up with the other Rajputs, Akbar escaped to the Mahrattahs in the south, and, in consequence, on September 15, 1681, Aurangzeb began his first march towards the Dakhin, a country from which he was destined never to return.