Storia do Mogor 177.7

177.7

Finally, Aurangzeb, finding that his son still hesitated to start, wrote to him another letter, in which he pretended astonishment at the delay, and once more invited him to come back. But Akbar, who had now drawn from his father enough funds to last him a long time, wrote that most certainly he meant to come, but it could be in one way only — sword in hand, and at the peril of his life to make himself King of Hindustan, after killing his father. By this time Aurangzeb recognised that the procedure of Shah 'Alam in sending money to his brother, at the time when he first went in pursuit, was no such great fault of judgment, since he (Aurangzeb) himself had fallen into the same mistake.