[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) › 281.2.1 # Storia do Mogor 281.2.1 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 281.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [281.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.2.1) Thus have I ever beheld with great astonishment that this prince, from the very beginning of his reign, has never promoted any traitor to his former country, whatever might be the services he had rendered to him. It is true that he has not acted in that way to the children, grand-children, relations, or descendants of such traitors. On the contrary, these he has ever advanced, just like any other of his subjects, according to their merits. In short, this has been all his life long one of his political maxims, to put the fathers, grandfathers, and uncles to death for being traitors to their country, in order not to suffer himself afterwards from similar perfidy; while he has promoted their descendants in the hope of gaining their friendship and affection. He knows, as says Machiavel, that he who desires to obliterate injuries past and done cannot resort to a more effective medicine than the prescribing of silver. Still, some of the first-named men, seeing that their misery and their affliction were increasing day by day, have frequently quitted him and offered their services to Shiva Ji, hoping thereby to improve their lot. In this course they have been imitated by a number of Mahomedans, who daily adopt the same expedient, and subsequently live on nothing but the pillage and brigandage of which they are guilty in the lands of their liege lord and king. - [Previous: 281.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.1.7) - [Next: 281.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.2.2) - [Up: 281.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.2.1) · Pramāṇa