[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) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 54.7 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 54.7 Travels in India (Ball) 54.7 - **Language:** English ### [54.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.54.7) Aurangzeb seeing that his army was unable to advance into the country of the Raja, set himself to make another kind of war in order to obtain Dārā Shāh’s son from his hands. He forbade commerce between his subjects and those of the Raja; this was very prejudicial to the latter, who, inhabiting a country of mountains and rocks, are constrained to provide themselves from outside with whatever they want. They immediately commenced to murmur at the protection which he had given to Sultan Suliman Sheko, and cried out that it was to the prejudice of the public welfare. Their priests also began to doubt the truth of their oracles, and to believe that it was desirable to interpret them otherwise. At last they began to arrange for the ruin of this poor Prince; and what completed it was that Raja Jeswant Singh, who had betrayed Dara Shah, as I have above related, sent secretly to Raja Nakti Rani to advise him that it was for his own safety and that of his country to yield to the will of Aurangzeb, and give up his nephew into his hands. This advice of Jeswant Singh sorely embarrassed the Raja, for on the one side he had made a solemn oath, and sworn by Ram Ram to protect Suliman Sheko at the risk of his country and his life, on the other he feared a revolt in his Kingdom and the prospect of losing it. - [Previous: 54.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.54.6) - [Next: 54.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.54.8) - [Up: 54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.54) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.54.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.54.7) · Pramāṇa