History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c75.s3.3

v5.c75.s3.3

"In this extremity of distress, Qasim, Khanazad and Saf Shikan, who had dismounted close to one another, planned to enter into the *garhi* secretly without informing Muhammad Murad and other comrades who were at a distance. They began to send within such stores as were left after the enemy's plunder, pretending to lighten themselves for fighting. The first night Qasim Khan, on the pretext of patrolling, left his post and entered the fort by scaling the wall with ropes, as it was found inadvisable to enter by the gate owing to the crowd assembled before it. Then Khanazad and Saf Shikan entered through the gate by charging the crowd of common soldiers round it. Lastly Muhammad Murad and other officers, learning of it, came in with the greatest difficulty. Saf Shikan, turning to Muhammad Murad, cried out—'How gallantly have we brought ourselves here!' Murad's nephew retorted—'Shame on the type of gallantry that you have shown in coming here, of which you are bragging!'"