Storia do Mogor 203.3.7

203.3.7

When these princes have gone to live in separate palaces they observe their birthday or other festival themselves in the manner I have stated (III. 10), and their officers are obliged to make them presents in proportion to their wealth. Thus, on this head it happened that in the year 1679 at the town of Aurangabad, where Shah 'Alam was celebrating his birthday, the queen, his mother, then living with him, made him a present of many curiosities to the value of fifty thousand rupees, at which the prince [12] was not satisfied, and complained, saying that his mother had been very niggardly compared to other years. In this way the queen was forced into giving him more presents. The other princesses of his household in the same way gave according to their means and substance. So much is this done, that on such an occasion it is generally indispensable for everyone, small and great, to act in this way and see that their present corresponds to their means and rank.