Storia do Mogor 265.10.3

265.10.3

The minister's sentence was that the hand of the Persian with which the blow had been given should be cut off. The order was forthwith executed. Finding that neither the government nor the courts were in the hands of the Mahomedans, but in those of the Hindus, the Persian said nothing, but, frying the severed hand in oil, he took it, and, quitting the kingdom of Gulkandah, resorted to the court of Aurangzeb. There he showed the hand and the mutilated arm, and in a loud voice ejaculated [192] that God had made him (Aurangzeb) king to redress injustice, such as this done to a Sayyid, a descendant of the Prophet. Repeatedly he made the same complaint, and in the end Aurangzeb ordered some money to be disbursed to him for his support. He was told to be patient, and in due time punishment would be inflicted for the little respect paid by the tyrant to the chosen of God. When Aurangzeb tried conclusions with the King of Gulkandah, the crimes he alleged were these : highhandedness, oppression, permitting public drinking-shops, women of evil life, and gambling-houses, choosing Hindu governors, maintaining temples, and not allowing to Mahomedans that free liberty which they are entitled to. Therefore God had made him (Aurangzeb) king for the suppression of all these disorders allowed by Abu-l-Hasan. This king of Gulkandah, Abu-l-Hasan, was descended from, and was of the blood royal of the kings of that line ;