46 HISTORY OF AURANGZIB. [CHAP. III. ment left under Rashid Khan to carry on its Fall of Ausa. siege. The fall of Udgir set free a large force for strengthening the attack, while it damped the ardour of the defend- ers of Ausa. The commandant, a Rajput named Bhojbal, kept up a ceaseless fire on the besiegers. But when the trenches reached the edge of the ditch and mining was started, Bhojbal at last lost heart, gave up the fort (19th October), and was taken into the Imperial army as a Commander of One Thousand.* Khan-i-Zaman's division had been equally successful in the Junnar district and the Konkan.† Pursuit of Shahji. A Bijapur contingent under Randaula Khan co-operated with him according to the new treaty. Leaving Ahmadnagar about the end of June, he marched on Junnar, of which the town was held by the Mughals and the fort by the Marathas. Two thousand men were told off to invest it, while the general himself marched with the rest of his army to capture Shahji's home near Puna. Heavy rain detained him for a month on the bank
- Abdul Hamid, I. B. 220-221.
† Abdul Hamid, I. B. 225-230. Junnar, 19°12 N. 73.56 E. (Ind. At. 39 N. W.). Digitized by Microsoft Ⓡ
