The Book of Akbar 38.5

38.5

Aman Das, having heard of his father’s intentions, made a rapid journey, and concealed himself in his mother’s house. There, with the assistance of one of the Raja’s attendants, with whom he had long had relations, he one night killed his father. The men of the place then assembled and made him prisoner, and sent a person to communicate the facts to his brother. But the younger brother would not fall in with their views; he refused to do anything against his elder brother, who stood to him in the position of a father, and said that as his brother had chosen to risk eternal perdition, how could he look him in the face! All persuasion was useless, and he went off into the wilds.