[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 65.36.1 # Storia do Mogor 65.36.1 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 65.36.1 - **Language:** English ### [65.36.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.65.36.1) Jaswant Singh had assumed that Shah Shuja' would come out the victor ; he therefore made for Agrah, where he halted for some days. Then came the unexpected news that Shah Shuja' had lost, to the great relief of Shaistah Khan, at that time governor of Agrah city ; and the rajah started for his own country. For previously a rumour had been current that Aurangzeb had lost the battle and had been taken prisoner along with Mir Jumlah, and that Shah Shuja' had carried them off in chains. Thus, Shaistah Khan, aware of the treachery he had committed, already held his life as lost, and had resolved to swallow poison and kill himself. He had the goblet ready before him, and, commending himself to Muhammad, expected as a certainty that Jaswant Singh would come into the city to seize him. If Jaswant Singh had only entered the city, he could without a doubt, by the slightest pressure or threat, have caused the commandant of the fortress, called Mortuzacan (Murtaza Khan), a very old man who had under him the fighting men, to open the gates, and Shahjahan would have been delivered from prison ; for, seeing the agitation into which his men were thrown by the news brought in by the men of Aurangzeb's army who had fled at the beginning of the battle, the said commandant was already in a tremor. But as Fortune favoured Aurangzeb, she hindered Jaswant Singh from even this small effort. - [Previous: 65.35.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.65.35.8) - [Next: 65.36.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.65.36.2) - [Up: 65.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.65.36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.65.36.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.65.36.1) · Pramāṇa