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Rh , and the emperor having marched into those countries, took the fortresses out of the hands of the hereditary princes, and put them under the management of the imperial officers, ordering the dispossessed chiefs to attend the imperial stirrup, and to live henceforward at court. The vezir Assed-khan was ordered to repair to the capital, which, with its dependent territory, was placed under his special care. In this manner every part of the empire was gradually coming into order; and every heart being gained over by the emperor's affability, served to strengthen the throne. Unfortunately, however, there arose a civil war with the two remaining sons of Aurengzib.

The Prince Cambakhsh no sooner heard of his brother Mahomed Aazem's death, than he proposed to oppose the victorious party. In vain did the new emperor send him soothing messages, and advised him to live in peace. These mild overtures served only to give confidence to Cambakhsh, and he sent answers breathing nothing but defiance. Even these the emperor would have overlooked, but finding himself urged to war, and reproached by his own sons, he resolved to reduce Cambakhsh. With that view he quitted Dehli on Monday the seventeenth of Shaban, in the year 1119, and marched towards Bijapoor by the way of Fatepoor and Ajmir. On the third of Zilkad of the ensuing VOL. I.