History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c64.s14.2

v4.c64.s14.2

His patience was exhausted, and despairing of securing Maratha help in his plans, he issued from his asylum at Pali (Dec. 1682) with his Rathor contingent, with a view to leaving Shambhuji's territory. For a time he thought of going to the Qutb Shah, but evidently he was headed off from Golkonda by the Mughal forces posted across his path. Then turning to the south, he took up his residence at Banda in Savant-vadi, which lay within the Maratha kingdom. Banda is some twenty-five miles north of Goa and within easy reach (15 miles east) of the great port of Vingurla. From this place Akbar (January 1683) sent an agent (Abdur Rahim Khan) to the Viceroy of Goa, presenting him with his own jewelled dagger and begging his permission to sell some jewels in Goa and his influence with the Portuguese factor at Mangalore (in the kingdom of Kanara) to assist Akbar in chartering a ship there to carry him to Arabia. The Viceroy gave him passports for five ships (3rd Feb.) and also wrote to his agent at Mangalore and to the Queen of Kanara to help the Prince in every possible way.