History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c28.2

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Early in May 1658, Sulaiman Shukoh, then pondering how he should force or turn Shuja's wall from the hill to the river at Monghyr, received a summons from his father to return quickly to him, as Aurangzib and Murad had overwhelmed Jaswant in Malwa and were marching on Agra. A peace was hastily patched up with Shuja, through the exertions of Jai Singh, and the Imperial army soon set out on its return. On 2nd July when he reached Korah, 105 miles west of Allahabad, fast couriers brought to him the fatal news of his father's crushing defeat at Samugarh five days earlier. A letter from Shah Jahan sent with them urged him to make a rapid march with his army to join his father at Delhi. Dara, too, wrote to the Imperial officers requesting them to accompany his son. But it was in vain. The