History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c27.59

v2.c27.59

"The crowd assembled was immense; and everywhere I observed the people weeping, and lamenting the fate of Dara in the most touching language....From every quarter I heard piercing and distressing shrieks,...men, women, and children wailing as if some mighty calamity had happened to themselves." But not a hand was raised in rescue, for, the prisoner was girt round by squadrons of cavalry clad in shining steel, with drawn swords in their hands, and mounted archers with arrows placed ready in their bows, led by Bahadur Khan on an elephant. In this manner the ignominious procession entered the New City or Shah Jahanabad by the Lahore gate, traversed the whole length of it, through Chandni Chawk and Sadullah Khan's Bazar, by the foot of the Fort, till it passed out to the suburb of Khizirabad in Old Delhi. There Dara was lodged in the Khawaspura mansion, amidst a strong guard, to await sentence.*