[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) › 281.3.7 # Storia do Mogor 281.3.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 281.3.7 - **Language:** English ### [281.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.3.7) For, as he said, this duty and that we owe to God for having devoted us to His sole service are the two principal grounds of action on which should rest the conduct of princes. They owe inviolable fidelity to that Supreme Being, and must work without ceasing for the furtherance of His glory and the propagation of religion. 'The great Taimur-i-lang, my ancestor, that illustrious conqueror and founder of empire, was a rare and magnificent exemplar of these fine qualities. For, as it may well be said, nothing except love of justice and of virtue forced that great prince into the war he undertook against Bayazld, Emperor of the Turks. Everybody knows that it was the cries of the oppressed and innocent that put arms into his hands. He did not drop them until he had enjoyed the pleasing satisfaction of inflicting on this cruel tyrant a punishment proportioned to the heinousness of his crimes. I may well assert without flattering myself overmuch,' he added, 'that they are the same motives which have hitherto impelled me. Yes, the fear of seeing the Mahomedan religion oppressed in Hindustan if my brother Dara had ascended the throne; that of beholding the ruin of the kingdom, which I looked on as inevitable if my father's reign had continued, by reason of his bad government: these are the only causes why I have always opposed myself strongly and without self-seeking to the attempts of everyone to supplant me. - [Previous: 281.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.3.6) - [Next: 281.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.3.8) - [Up: 281.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.3.7) · Pramāṇa