Storia do Mogor 110: Aurangzeb returns from Kashmir to Dihli.

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Finding that his stay outside of Hindustan was not of good augury, and his health having already improved, Aurangzeb decided to return to Dihli. Marching with the due slowness, he arrived in three hundred and three days at his court in Dihli. There he learnt that Shahjahan had sent in search of an European (Frank) physician, but had been unable to obtain one. He (Aurangzeb) judged it was now time to kill his father by poison. He therefore sent him a European who had formerly been doctor to Shahjahan when he was reigning emperor. At this time the man was his (Aurangzeb's) servant. He expected that Shahjahan would never distrust such a physician, a man who had before served him a long time. But Shahjahan refused his services, suspecting what was sure to happen if he did accept. I could give the name of this person, from whom I received several slights while I was in the Mogul kingdom, but I leave the dead to the good opinion of men and the judgment of God. Since, in thus speaking, I have a fear that the man might be supposed to be Monsieur Bernier, who is sufficiently well known, I add that he is not meant. He was a great friend of mine, nor while in the Mogul country did he practise as a physician. But he gave himself out as a mathematician in the employ of Danishmand Khan, a Persian by race, who was the most learned man at the court.
The European, whose name I do not record, though he was of no use to Aurangzeb for poisoning Shahjahan, served to kill for him in that way Khalilullah Khan, who betrayed Dara in the first battle and helped Aurangzeb on many occasions; that Khalilullah Khan, who received a shoe-beating from his wife [81]; and that Khalilullah Khan, whose tent by order of the eunuch Primavera (Basant), at the fortress of Bhakkar, I covered from my cannon with old shoes and such like. Aurangzeb was already tired of seeing this traitor still alive, and when he was governor of Lahor he ordered him to court, and replaced him by Ebraimcan (Ibrahim Khan) son of Alimerdacan ('Ali Mardan Khan). On his arrival at court, the king bestowed on him much honour, and ordered the aforesaid European, in whom Khalilullah Khan trusted, to dispatch him to another world through some cordial. The poison was very slow, and Khalilullah Khan was many days in great pain; when he died, his lips, hands, and feet were all black as coal. For this fine action, Aurangzeb made the European a mansabdar, raising him every month to double the pay he already had.