Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c40.s3.2

v3.c40.s3.2

∗ Neither the Persian and Marathi records, nor the Rajasthani sources (so far as these last are known to me), give any support to Tod’s allegation that this elephant-driver Firuz played the Mazarin to the queen-mother of Jaipur, the Chundāwatni Rani. The British historian’s second statement that she was poisoned by the Narukā, is similarly without evidence. The Vamsha Bhāskar (p. 3886) merely states that she fell ill of an incurable malady and died some days after her two sons had arrived at her bed-side (probably in 1777). This does not look like poisoning.