Storia do Mogor 65.30.7

65.30.7

After this speech Dara asked if other European Farangis accompanied me. To this I answered that the hardships of the road hindered many from coming, but as they found a chance they would come. Dara ordered a horse to be given to me, which was at once brought. Not liking the look of it, he directed them to give me another and better one. He increased my pay, making it in place of eighty rupees one hundred and fifty rupees every month. An order issued for a present to me of five hundred rupees with a ' serpao ' (sardpd). I put up at a house where several of my European friends were staying ; they had got away from Agrah before it was invested, and with them I dwelt. Prince Dara wasted no time, but with extreme energy enlisted fresh men to form a good army and resist Aurangzeb, whose acts he knew of. He had already some thirty thousand horsemen of various races, Mogolis (Mughals), Saheides (Sayyids), and Patanis (Pathans). While these preparations were going on there came Raia Sarupsing (Rajah Sarup Singh)—that is to say, 'Beauty of the Lion'—who had been sent for by Dara. He brought four thousand horse and ten thousand infantry. The territory of this rajah adjoins the mountains in the kingdom of Kashmir, and he has an army of fifteen thousand cavalry and three hundred thousand infantry, all of them Rajputs. Dara with great entreaty had begged him to be so good as to do him the favour of coming at this time to join him with all his men.