Storia do Mogor 65.16.6

65.16.6

Murad Bakhsh selected three thousand horsemen, and placed them under his loyal eunuch called Xaabas (Shahbaz), a very brave man, and sent them to take the castle of Surat. During this interval Prince Aurangzeb sent his son Sultan Muhammad, who was married to a daughter of the King of Gulkhandah, as I have already stated (ante, I. 163), to bring back Mir Jumlah, then busy at the fortress of Kaliyani. Mir Jumlah was to rejoin him (Aurangzeb) at the city of Aurangabad. The prince sent a message that there were affairs of great importance on which he must consult him. Mir Jumlah, though it was all a pretence, made excuses, saying in a loud voice that he was the officer of the King Shahjahan, and not of Aurangzeb, nor was he under the latter's orders : for the king was alive, and not dead [173] as was asserted ; that there was trustworthy news of the fact ; that all his family was at the court in Agrah in the hands of Prince Dara. In no way could he accede to the proposals, or adopt the side of Aurangzeb. In this way Sultan Muhammad went back to the city of Aurangabad, and pretended to be very much put out with Mir Jumlah for not having carried out the business wanted of him.