Storia do Mogor 149.4

149.4

When the king sent Mahabat Khan to Kabul again as governor, Netu Ji, officer of Shiva Ji, succeeded in escaping ; but the attempt did not end as he wished, for he was caught at once, and they brought him to Lahor, where they put him into a cage until the arrival of the royal orders. These orders were that if he did not consent to become a Mahomedan his head was to be cut off. He pretended to change his religion and recovered once more his rank, but was ordered to go across the river Indus. After some months had elapsed he disappeared and made for the country of Shiva Ji, and fought anew against the Moguls in the accustomed way. Those who escaped death were afterwards ransomed ; Muhammad Amin, unlocking his treasure-house at Peshawar, ransomed his mother, who had been wounded in the side, his sister, and his daughter. If anyone wants to know if Muhammad Amin Khan was rich, he can conceive an answer from what was said to him by his secretary — that is to say, that without drawing pay or income from the king, he could of himself, with the rank he had, maintain twelve thousand horsemen for eighty years.