Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 2.6.4

2.6.4

The junction of the armies was celebrated by great rejoicings and much festivity. The two brothers were inseparable, and Aureng-Zebe renewed his professions of unalterable affection and his protestations of complete disinterestedness. Of the kingdom, he repeated that he most assuredly entertained no thought; he had placed himself at the head of an army for the sole purpose of combating Dara, their common foe, and of seating Morad on the vacant throne. During the march of the armies toward the capital, Aureng-Zebe spoke in the same tone, and never omitted, either in private or public, to address his brother with the reverence and humility due from a subject to his sovereign, calling him Hazaret, 'King,' and 'Your Majesty.' Strange that Morad should never have suspected his honesty of intention, or that the late nefarious transactions in Golkonda should have made so slight an impression on his mind! but this Prince was blinded by a wild ambition for empire, and incapable of perceiving that he who had recently incurred so much infamy by his attempt to usurp a kingdom could feel little inclination to live and die a Fakire.