Storia do Mogor 172.12

172.12

It is necessary to state how the adventurous Mogul proved that he did not mean to give up his enterprise of conquering the kingdom of the Rana. Whilst he was in Ajmer he ordered the fortress of Chitor to be put in order and garrisoned. I spoke of it in the history of Akbar in the Second Book of my First Part (I. 82). Yet. as I said there, one of the conditions of peace between Akbar and the Rana was that both of them should relinquish the said fortress of Chitor, a stone being placed on the gateway of that fortress, on which were cut these words: 'Neither I nor you for evermore.' Thus Aurangzeb was not constant in following the rules of his fathers — at any rate, not in those things where he found his advantage. Therefore he ordered the said fortress to be garrisoned, and commanded the destruction of the pillar that the famed PadmanI had caused to be erected in the fortress, bearing a graven stone stating you should never place faith in Moguls [190].