Storia do Mogor 237.6

237.6

The third is the Rajah of Bomdela (Bundelah). This race is much given to robbery and rebellion. One of these princes revolted against Shahjahan, and allowed a passage through his country to Prince Aurangzeb when marching against Prince Dara. He was beheaded the very day of the battle, as I have stated in my First Part (I. 186). It was the son of this rajah just spoken of who came to seek me out at San Thome to ask me to cure him of a disease he had (II. 235). His name was Dalpat Rao — that is, ' The Honourable Army.' He is at the head of fifteen thousand horse and of much infantry. The fourth is Rotella (Rautela). The prince of this country was called Ram Singh, Rotella (Rautela), and his name means ' God's Lion.' He died of an arrow wound inflicted by Prince Murad Bakhsh in the battle against Dara on the fourth June, 1656 (1658), as I stated in my First Part (I. 191). The tribe can place in the field as many as twenty-five thousand horse and seventy thousand infantry, all of one race. There are some twenty-seven rajahs of about the same strength as the last-mentioned, and I proceed to note some of the races they govern, some of them bearing also the same name. The greater number are in the service of the king, where they draw good honourable pay, equal to that of the Mahomedan generals and captains.