Storia do Mogor 65.35.6

65.35.6

Already Aurangzeb was in the last extremity, abandoned by all, fearful of capture, and Fortune seemed to have deserted him. He thought he could never escape from his enemy's hands. But such was his lucky star, that he stopped upon his elephant and endured the severe assault. He remembered the battle he had fought against Dara at Samugarh, and believed that by sitting patiently on his elephant he would conquer. AllahwirdI Khan, when he received the note from Aurangzeb, went off to Shah Shuja' [230] and resorted to the same tactics as Khalilullah Khan used with Dara, calling out to him : ' Congratulations to my sovereign on the victory the Most High has given your majesty ! All that is left to do is to take the coward Aurangzeb before he can escape. Why do we delay thus? Let us advance with more speed ; and to do this, let your majesty descend from your elephant and mount on horseback, and in a single charge we can seize our prey.' Here we can see how eagerly Fortune favoured Aurangzeb. For by this time the prince Shah Shuja' had won the day, and Aurangzeb was without hope and utterly lost. She changed the hands they held, so that Aurangzeb came out the winner, and Shah Shuja' the loser.