Storia do Mogor 238.1.6

238.1.6

Near Kashmir there are several other rajahs, of whom some also pay tribute ; but frequently they refuse to obey, for which reason war is made against them. One of them is Rajah Rup — that is, ' good-looking.' He is at the head of twelve thousand cavalry and eighty thousand infantry. All the same, I call him a traitor and a thief for having broken his promise to Prince Dara, and carrying off a large sum of money given him to collect soldiers against Aurangzeb, as may be seen in my First Part (I. 210). In one of the mountains, the nearest to Dihll, one of these rajahs pays one hundred and fifty rupees of tribute, besides some boat-loads of ice that he sends down by the Jamnah river during the hot season. This rajah asked Aurangzeb to exempt him from this money tribute, when he would undertake to send him every year enough ice for the whole city of Dihli, if he were empowered to sell it. But the king refused his consent for three reasons. The first was that much coin would be exported from his court, for everybody would buy. The second was that the rajah would become wealthy. The third was that he did not want anyone to use ice, except those to whom he should deign to accord such a favour.