Storia do Mogor 65.32.5

65.32.5

While Dara was thus preparing to resume his march, Aurangzeb was coming after him by long marches, moving on day and night without halting at the head of the finest part of his army [217]. These were enough to overcome the small force still attached to Dara. Aurangzeb had left behind the rest of his army with orders to follow. Finding that he was pursued, Dara was compelled to move. He ordered the boats to be started down the river, putting in command of them a valiant eunuch, Coia Vacent (Khwajah Basant) — that is to say, 'Springtime.' The prince left by the land route at the head of five thousand horsemen and five thousand infantry. Dara's favoured general, Barqandaz Khan, went with him; most of the others deserted, as did those that he had taken on at Multan, carrying off the large sums of pay that he had disbursed to them.