History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c64.s6.9

v4.c64.s6.9

The traitors were immediately seized, flung into prison, and put to torture. Annaji Datto, his brother Somaji, Hiraji Farzand, Balaji Avji Prabhu, and Mahadev Anant, with three others were killed by being flung in chains under the feet of elephants. Twenty more culprits were sentenced to death later. Rajaram’s mother, Soyra Bai, who had been the prime mover of every conspiracy against Shambhuji, was charged with having poisoned her husband (a year and a half earlier), and she was put by Shambhuji to a painful death, through poison (according to the Bombay factory report) or by starvation (according to Chitnis.) All this happened in October 1681. Her father’s family, the Shirkés, fell under Shambhuji’s persecution; their property was seized, many of their members were killed, and the rest fled to Mughal territory, entered the imperial army, and tried to carry on their blood-feud with him to the end of his days.