Storia do Mogor 195.3

195.3

The fortress was already about to surrender. But if the war were ended many soldiers would fall out of employ, and their officers be without income; so they managed to make it appear that Kam Bakhsh was in correspondence with Shiva Ji (Ram Raja), and meant to forsake his father and desert to the Mahrattahs. Two days before the fortress was to be made over Asad Khan carried off Kam Bakhsh a prisoner to Aurangzeb. The latter imagined it to be true that his son meant to rebel, and was much concerned. But as he (Kam Bakhsh) was his youngest, and son of his beloved Udepuri, he showed no resentment. At this fact the reader may well be astonished, knowing from the course of my history how Aurangzeb forgave no one who attempted to oppose his designs.