History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c77.s2.3

v5.c77.s2.3

Tarbiyat Khan raised his gun-platform 24 yards high, to the level of the bastion of the fort gate. "In procuring materials for it, not a tree was left standing within thirty or forty kos of Satara." [M. A. 414.] Eight thousand sacks were taken from the grain market and filled with sand to form a bulwark round it. Three hundred oxen were set to transport timber for the battery. But the stones showered down by the enemy made further progress impossible. Orders were then issued to fill the empty chests of the public treasury and of the money-changers with stone and sand and line the battery with them,—150 water-carriers being posted there to put out fires promptly.