Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 2.12.8

2.12.8

Let this wretched and drunken man be bound hand and foot, and removed there within, to sleep away his shame.' The command was no sooner given than executed; five or six soldiers rushed upon Morad-Bakche, and in spite of his cries and resistance, fetters and handcuffs were applied, and he was carried away. This violence could not be perpetrated without the knowledge of his immediate attendants; they wished to sound an alarm, and attempted to break into the apartment; but they were silenced and overawed by Allah-Couly, the chief officer in Morad-Bakche's artillery, who had long been corrupted by the gold of Aureng-Zebe.