History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c77.s10.2

v5.c77.s10.2

One day the prime minister, after crossing a nala, could not find a single dry spot on which to pitch a tent for himself. He set up a small square canopy (raoti) ; but at night it rained heavily and the canopy twice came down on the wazir's head ; and for the rest of the night his servants stood holding the canvas sheet up by the corner-ropes and thus saved him from being smothered to death. It was impossible to cook anything. "The condition of poorer men can be imagined from this," as Khafi Khan says, (ii. 505.)