Storia do Mogor 335.3.6

335.3.6

It happened that in the kingdom of Bijapur other troops of the Mahrattahs encountered some captains of the Mogul: there was a fight, and the Mahrattahs were the conquerors. They killed the leader, Sequinazam (? Shekh Nizam), and his son; while Solimancan (Sulaimān Khan), brother of the Dā,ūd Khan of whom I spoke above, was made a prisoner and taken to the captain Gemsircan (Jamshīd Khan). In the month of January, 1704, the Mahrattahs entered the kingdom of Bījāpur, and collected from several of its provinces one-fourth of all the revenues (for he who did not pay willingly and at once was robbed of all that he had, and even the principal men of the villages were taken prisoners). In this way they were so successful that they reached their homes without any hindrance.