History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c41.s6.25

v3.c41.s6.25

But man is the least of the enemies that an invader of Assam has to dread. In August a terrible epidemic broke out at Mathurapur. From the hill immediately south of it, bearing the appropriate name of Fever Mountain (*Jwar Parbat*) blew pestilential airs and from the foot of the hill rolled down streams of putrid water. In the Mughal camp fever and flux carried off hundreds daily. Medicine had no effect, and the dead could not be given a decent burial on account of their vast number. Dilir Khan's corps was reduced from 1,500 troopers to about 450. The whole of Assam was infected, and two hundred and thirty thousand of its people died of disease that year, according to the Baduli Phukan's estimate.