The Moghul, page 32
The next morning Vasant Rao and forty horsemen were waiting withHawksworth's cart. By midday they had left Burhanpur far behind, andwere well on the way north. The journey north through Mandu, Ujjain,and Gwalior to Agra normally took six weeks, but when roads were dry itwas an easy trip.
Two days later five prominent _mansabdars_ in the northern Deccan diedpainfully in separate ambushes by bandits. Their _jagirs_ wereconfiscated immediately by Prince Jadar. Ten days from that time hemoved south with eighty thousand men and thirty thousand horse.
BOOK FOUR
AGRA
