The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.51
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.51
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On 23 April the Mughuls fired two mines. The first killed many of the garrison, but the commandant Prāgjī Prabhu was dug out alive from under the debris. The second exploded outwards, killing two thousand of the Mughul soldiers, but making a 20 yards breach in the wall. Bājī Chāvan Daphle, a Marāthā vassal, mounted the breach shouting to the Mughul soldiers to follow him and enter, but they were too dazed by the catastrophe to advance, and he was killed. But after the death of Rājā Rām, the Marāthā commandant Subhānjī lost heart and yielded the fort to the imperialists (1 May, 1700).