Storia do Mogor 125: Death of Shah 'Abbas.

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Meanwhile Shah 'Abbas was advancing with great determination and impatience for a contest with the army of Aurangzeb. He had three hundred thousand horsemen, and it is quite certain [113] that if Aurangzeb had encountered this valiant king he would have run considerable risk of losing the kingdom, to gain which he had worked so hard with mind and body. But it was his good fortune that Shah 'Abbas fell ill of quinsy and died upon the march, whereby Aurangzeb was much relieved, though by that time ready to take the field, as Rajah Jai Singh had made peace with the king of Bijapur.
Upon the death of Shah 'Abbas the aged mother of that king wrote to Aurangzeb that, now his rival was dead, he was excused from taking the trouble of coming into the field. All the same, if he wanted to come, he would find her there in the place of her son, and she was waiting for nothing but a word from him to start. Although Aurangzeb had made every preparation for a campaign, and he was not occupied with any other matter of importance, Shiva Ji having been already taken, he still did not care to interfere with the Persians. He made the excuse that it did not befit his honour to go against a woman, while God had already chastised the evil-doer. As a revenge for what Shah 'Abbas had attempted to do, he forbade the sending of caravans from Hindustan to Persia, but allowed them to travel into India from Persia.