History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c61.s6.3

v4.c61.s6.3

Profuse as Jai Singh’s payments were, they were exceeded by the engagements he made on behalf of his master. Every petty Muslim captain or Maratha chieftain, who offered to desert from Bijapur, was promised a title and a high mansab in the Mughal service, besides a large cash bounty for equipping his retainers. (Dil. 62.) The number of the traitors thus recommended was so large, that the keeping of Jai Singh’s promises would have drained the imperial treasury more thoroughly than the failure of a campaign. Aurangzib in anger rejected all the Rajah’s recommendations after granting the first few.