History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c75.s8.6

v5.c75.s8.6

Evidently Aurangzib's intention to besiege this fort first had leaked out, for, immediately after his starting from Islampuri, Rajaram removed his family from Satara to Khelna and himself coming out of Satara halted 8 miles outside it. Here two envoys of Buland Bakht, the rebel Gond Rajah of Deogarh, met him and invited him to Gondwana to cause a diversion in the Emperor's rear. The Maratha king had long been intriguing with the Gond chiefs; and now, setting aside the advice of Dhana Jadav and Dado Malhar to flee to Jinji once again, he decided upon making a bold counter-stroke by a raid into Berar and Gondwana.