History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c50.2

v3.c50.2

The official history (M.A. 178) asserts that the Rathor escort of Jaswant's family in Delhi, on being hard pressed by the imperial troops and losing many of their number, slew the two widows of Jaswant "who had been brought into the field in male attire," concealed his sole surviving son in the house of a milk-vendor, and then fled. "The kotwal Fulad Khan, learning of it, brought the infant to the Court, and he was identified as the late Rajah's son by some of his servant-girls who had been made prisoner.