Storia do Mogor 294.3.6

294.3.6

As a token of the memory that you would wish to perpetuate of a good father, and that your people may have ever before their eyes the acts of Aurangzeb, I ask you to make use after my death of the following inscriptions upon the money you will order to be coined: ' " I stamp my coin on the seven planets; I sound my drums up to the clear moon; I, Miran Shah, king all-powerful, without rival." In addition I wish you every kind of happiness, and am, etc.' This is the manner in which this old man expressed himself, adding several phrases common in their language, intimating that all things belonged to him (Shah 'Alam), and that, properly speaking, all the fruit he (Aurangzeb) would reap for his labour and trouble would be the thought of leaving after his death a wise and understanding son to occupy his place. It was upon August 14 in the same year (1702) that Da,ud Khan, deputy governor of the Karnatik, made himself master of the fortress of Velours (Vellore, Vellūr). The same means were used as already indicated in the case of Khelna, money being the great moving force employed by these gentry to carry out their designs. In fine, by one method or another, they have hunted the Shiva Jī (i.e., the Mahrattahs) out of the Karnatik, where he now possesses no single post, small or great.