[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 155 # Storia do Mogor 155: I ATTEND THE DAUGHTER OF MURAD BAKHSH. Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 155 - **Language:** English ### I ATTEND THE DAUGHTER OF MURAD BAKHSH. ### [155.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.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. ### [155.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.155.2) It happened that a few days afterwards, the sorcerers assuring him that the man was now sane, and had no longer a demon in his inside, they allowed him to go for a walk in a garden along with the princess and her ladies. Having a dagger in his waist-belt, he drew it, and, seizing the princess, stabbed her beneath the ribs towards the side. When the ladies and the eunuchs, on hearing her cries, ran to the spot, he killed one woman with the same dagger and wounded another in the arm. After this he jumped into the reservoir, playing (bailando) with the dagger and other obscenities. Then they carried away the princess in a palanquin as speedily as possible to the palace, and a eunuch came careering on horseback to my house. I was urged to make all haste ; I knew not why or wherefore. I sent an order to harness my carriage for us both to go together. But I could not extract from his mouth where it was necessary to go, until at last he told me to carry with me remedies for the treatment of a wound that the holy man had inflicted on the princess. I protested that I could not go without permission from the governor, because the princess was of royal blood, nor could I treat her without the king's orders. He paid no heed to those words, and most urgently intreated me not to delay, for the princess was in danger of death. He then told me the whole story. ### [155.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.155.3) We started in the carriage, and he made out I was drunk, ordering the carriage to be driven with all speed, stopping for neither hucksters' stalls nor people. Everybody was amazed to see a Frank, who usually went by rather quietly, rush past so desperately. We reached the palace, and on being told the facts as to the wound, I feared a lesion of the bowels. However, continuing my inquiries, I found that the wounds were not mortal. I did my utmost to get an examination before I began the treatment. But the Mahomedans are very touchy in the matter of allowing their women to be seen, or even touched by the hand; above all, the lady being of the blood royal, it could not be done without express permission from the king. Thus an examination was impossible. But I ordered them to describe the wound, and I had the dagger brought, and I saw that it was only by God's grace that it had not cut the bowels. I made my tents and plasters, mixing in them a balsam which I made, and since the persons in the service of these great people are intelligent, I instructed them as to what they had to do. By God's help the treatment succeeded, and in eleven days I healed her completely. ### [155.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.155.4) When for the first time I had applied the medicine, I went to the governor and reported the facts. This was to prevent his expressing surprise afterwards on hearing such news, and becoming frightened that the king would remark on the want of care with which he had guarded a man who had been declared mad. He entreated me earnestly to make my best efforts to cure the princess. Meanwhile he wrote to the king about the case, and told him that a demon had entered the body of the holy man, and the princess had been mortally wounded with a dagger. But a Frank doctor named Hakim Niccolao had attended her, and held out hopes that she would be well in a short time. This event brought me to the notice of many nobles who were in the camp. For on the matter becoming public, my friends wrote to their acquaintances; and the princess herself, as soon as she was well, wrote to the king that I had perfectly restored her, and she gave me a handsome present. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.155) · Pramāṇa