[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) › 213.9 # Storia do Mogor 213.9 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 213.9 - **Language:** English ### [213.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.213.9) As I was friends with the qazi 'Abd-ul-wahhab, who invited me frequently to his house, I will recount a judgment delivered by him in my presence. There was a woman who came to him requiring the condemnation of a young man then in custody for having slain her husband. The qazi in a mild tone counselled her to forgive, and if she would listen to him, he would advise her to marry the man, or else some other should she object to having the murderer. The woman consented to the proposal, the young man was released \[52\], and she married him. Seeing this easy way of proceeding, I took the liberty to say to the qazi that the sentence he had just pronounced was likely to be the cause of several murders; for there being many women who were not content with their husbands, they would procure their murder by the hand of their lover, in order to marry again at once with the latter. He admitted the force of what I said, but he made believe to laugh at it, and said it was a charity to secure a benefit to the young man and save his life. But if the woman had persisted in her complaint, he would have condemned him to death. All the same, from all that I could see, I believe that the qazi acted thus merely to keep the woman three days in his house; for, in spite of his age, I fancy that he was not a stranger to such matters, and the woman was very pretty. - [Previous: 213.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.213.8) - [Next: 213.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.213.10) - [Up: 213](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.213) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.213.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.213.9) · Pramāṇa