Storia do Mogor 238.8.3

238.8.3

I will give a case which occurred at Aurangzeb's court in the year one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven (1697). The foster-brother of Prince Kam Bakhsh treacherously slew one of the king's eunuchs with an arrow. On hearing of this act, the king ordered the man to be seized ; and when the foster-brother knew of the royal order, he appealed to the prince. The latter took him to audience in his train, they clasping each other by the hand. The prince said to the king that first his life must be sacrificed before he allowed his foster-brother to be touched. Enraged at seeing such public imprudence and wrongful attitude, Aurangzeb ordered the man to be carefully taken out of the prince's hands. On this being attempted, the prince laid hold of his dagger and menaced anyone who approached, saying that he would slay him. The plausing disciples of Aurangzeb by honeyed words and false asseverations made him sheath his dagger and deliver up his foster-brother, supposing the latter's life to be safe. The king ordered the prince and his foster-brother to be arrested; but on the petition of Udepuri, his mother, they were released. In the year [one thousand and] seven hundred (1700) the king granted Kam Bakhsh the province of Gulkandah for his allowances, he remaining present at court.