Later Mughals v1.c6.s3.14
Later Mughals v1.c6.s3.14
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v1.c6.s3.14
On the 14th May, 1707 Azam Shah, after seventeen days of marching and one day's halt, reached Sironj, a distance of more than 114 *kos* from Burhanpur. The suffering from heat and want of water had been very great and the Grasiyahs or jungle tribes plundered every man that they could lay hold upon. From Sironj a force of some 4,500 men under Zulfiqar Khan, Rao Dalpat Bundela, Rao Ram Singh, Ahmad Said Khan Barha and others was sent on to reinforce Bidar Bakht, who now advanced by his father's orders towards Gwaliyar, in order to seize the fords on the Chambal river. At Sironj Azam Shah heard that Muazzam Shah had reached Lahor.[†]