CHAP. III.] BAGLANA FORTS CEDED. 53 1638, the Mughal army in three divisions stormed the lower fort or Bari, with heavy loss on both sides. The Rajah with some 500 men retired to the upper fort and was there blockaded. A month's close investment reduced him to submission. He sent his mother and minister to Baglana annexed. offer to Aurangzib the keys of his other eight forts and to beg for himself a post in the Emperor's service, (15th February). The overture was accepted; he was created a Com- mander of Three Thousand and consoled with an estate in Sultanpur, a district of Khandesh, north of the Tapti. On 4th June, he evacuated Mulher; his kingdom was annexed, and its reve- nue fixed at 4 lakhs for the present. A month later, his kinsman Rudbá surrendered the fort of Piplá, 9 miles south of Saler. One hundred and twenty pieces of artillery, large and small, were seized in the forts.† Bairam Shah's son-in-law, Somdev, ruled over Rámnagar. But as the revenue of this petty
- Khafi Khan says that a daredevil Mughal officer named
Syed Abdul Wahhab Khandeshi, with 4 or 5 Syeds expert in hill climbing, one standard-bearer, one trumpeter and one water-carrier, made a secret march by an unfrequented jungle path for three successive nights and on the fourth day appeared on the ridge of the Bari, and suddenly attacked it with a great noise. Encouraged by his example, the Mughal forces on the plain charged up hill and stormed the Bari. † Abdul Hamid, II. 106-109; Khafi Kh. i. 542, 561- 564. Digitized by Microsoft Ⓡ
