History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c81.s5.6

v5.c81.s5.6

A Mughal force gave him chase. The best mounted among them, including Safdar Khan's contingent, overtook the fugitives on the road to Patan. Durgadas's grandson, then in the first bloom of youth, said to him, "It is a shame to leave a battle-field without a wound. Let me bar the enemy's path, while you escape." The gallant youth did so and was killed with the Rathor rear-guard in resisting the Mughals, while on the other side Safdar Khan's son and Muhammad Ashraf Ghurni (another Gujrati officer) were wounded. Durgadas made use of the respite thus gained, to reach Unjha-Unauwa, 60 miles off, while the tired pursuers halted. At the end of the night he made another forced march, reached Patan, and taking his family out of that city set off for Therad in Marwar. The imperialists on coming to Patan killed Durgadas's kotwal who had stayed behind, and then gave up the pursuit. [*Mirat*, 368-369.]*