Later Mughals v1.c6.s29.23

v1.c6.s29.23

They started on the 14th, and reached Agra on the 20th October, 1712. Their stages were Faridabad, Palwal, Hodal, a sarai at "Tojalla", one kos from Mathura, a sarai at "Gosia Attebar Chan", and a sarai at Gaughat. The road was much infested by robbers. From Agra they returned to Surat. After exertions extending over one year and a great expenditure concessions of value had been obtained. Besides the heavy cost of the presents, the envoy's expenses amounted, it is said, to 30,000 guilders. The return presents were estimated to be worth 5500 rix-dollars. Yet, in the end, the whole of this expenditure was thrown away. Before the close of 1712 Farrukh-siyar had defeated Jahandar Shah, and the dead bodies of that luckless sovereign and of his Prime Minister were paraded through the streets of Dihli. After that revolution Jahandar Shah’s *farmans* were so much waste paper, and his reign was blotted out from the records of the Empire.