Storia do Mogor 149.3

149.3

All were made prisoners, except Mirza 'Abdullah, son of Muhammad Amin Khan, who on seeing the enemy make a prisoner of his father's wife, the one who showed me her daughter's face thereby to overcome me, cut off her head himself. After this the Pathans killed him ('Abdullah) along with Mirza Sultan, brother-in-law of Muhammad Amin Khan, a well-made man of grave demeanour, a Persian by birth. They took prisoners the mother, the sister, and the daughter of the fugitive. The last-named lady had already been named to Sultan Akbar, the fourth son of Aurangzeb, but after this the marriage was not carried out [155]. It was thought an indignity for a prince of the blood royal to marry one who had been taken and put to ransom by so barbarous a people as are the Pathans of those mountains. So barbarous were they, that they were not aware of the wealth they had acquired by the overthrow of their enemies, and gave the gold coins away for nothing, taking them to be of base metal. It was on this occasion that a jewel-box was lost containing all the most lovely jewels and the largest diamonds belonging to the widow of Mir Jumlah. She had refused to give them to Aurangzeb, who had asked for them, assigning as her reason that, being an old woman, the said jewels would serve her as torches to lighten her old age. Some say that when Mahabat Khan was sent back afterwards to govern Kabul a second time, he found means of recovering these valuables, but it is not known for certain.