Storia do Mogor 117.3

117.3

Arrived at Agrah, Aurangzeb put up at the mausoleum of Taj Mahal, and there awaited his father's body. It was not carried out through the palace entrance; through a hole made in the wall they brought it out head first, this being a superstition among the Mogul kings, I know not the reason why. Begam Sahib sent two thousand gold coins to be given to the poor, but the guards seized the whole, saying that prisoners could not give away anything. On the arrival of the corpse at the tomb, Aurangzeb prayed and showed much devoutness, wiping his eyes as if he wept. Thus he found himself arrived at the object of his desires in the year one thousand six hundred and sixty-five (correctly, 1666), that father being now buried whose death he had so long desired, and to shorten whose life he had sought so many expedients.