History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s3.t3.1

v5.c84.s3.t3.1

Then crossing the Narmada, Chhatra Sal re-entered Bundelkhand (1671) to fight the greatest monarch of the age. He was a youth of 21, with only five horsemen and 25 foot-soldiers at his back. His own brother, Ratan Shah (of Bijauri*) though entreated for 18 days to join him, shrank from a contest with Aurangzib as a hopeless task.