Storia do Mogor 281.5.8

281.5.8

When this superb edifice was completed, he expressed a desire to be buried in the same place. His object was to lead Shiva Ji to understand that he would never leave the Dakhin or stop from pursuing him until he had been forced back into due subjection. This crafty monarch, finding he was in no position to do any harm to the above rajah, made a pretence of large presents and heavy allowances to those simulated saints of whom I have spoken, in order that they might obtain for him favour from God. Furthermore, he brought to his army a number of Mullas and priests, and these busied themselves from morn to eve [14] in reading the Quran in a loud voice. There was a large number of them round the king's tent, also occupied in a similar manner. Over and above these things, he imitated Muhammad by distributing to all his leaders and officers a prodigious number of gold and silver rings set with emeralds, round which he had caused to be engraved words in the Arabic character. When he made these gifts, he said that when Muhammad went forth to war he wore rings like these, and thereby God accorded him the victory.