Storia do Mogor 155.1

155.1

Hardly had I reached Lahor when a terrible affair happened. This was that the holy man of Balkh, to whom Aurangzeb had married the daughter of Murad Bakhsh, went mad. I was treating him as such. But Fida,e Khan, being away at Peshawar, Amanat Khan was in his place. He listened to the proposals of the sorcerers, who said that the holy man was possessed by a demon, and not mad. I was obliged to abandon the treatment, Amanat Khan being aggrieved that I had taken on myself to treat a royal connection without first of all consulting him. My answer was that, being by profession a medical man, I went to the house of anyone who sent for me without making any distinctions. But since he did not approve of my continuing my treatment, I would that very hour quit the house and the patient.