Storia do Mogor 173.5

173.5

Akbar received the letter and demonstrated, even more clearly than was necessary, what were his intentions. For he wrote boldly to his father that he had really rebelled, that it was with firm resolve to fight that he had come forth from the mountain abysses. The cause of his revolt was the same that his father had himself taught him, for had he not risen against his father ? The whole realm was by this time tired at seeing his tyrannical acts, more especially the abrogation of the rights and privileges that his far-off ancestors had conceded to different persons in Hindustan. Therefore let him prepare for battle and mount his horse, for he was coming straight to fight him personally. On hearing this message, Aurangzeb began to be still more disquieted [192]. It was not so much his son that he feared, but the thirty thousand Rajput horsemen. He knew their object was to take vengeance, this being a good opening, for the insult done to their Rani and the sons of Jaswant Singh. Still, to show that he was not afraid, he wrote to Akbar to come on, and he would await him on horseback. For this purpose he ordered a long steel spike to be made and affixed to the head of a fine horse that he possessed.