History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c28.17

v2.c28.17

At last he made up his mind to accept the Rajah’s terms. Those of his servants who wanted to desert him but were deterred from the attempt by the roads out of the hills being guarded by the Rajah’s men, now advised Sulaiman not to trust his life to the hill people, but to return to Allahabad. To lend support to this counsel, they showed him a forged letter purporting to have come from his father’s devoted commandant of Allahabad and reporting that Shuja had arrived there with a vast army. Sulaiman, therefore, changed his mind, thanked the Rajah for his offer of hospitality, gave him some presents, and returned to Nagina. There all the traitors fled away, leaving only seven hundred men with him.