Storia do Mogor 294.5.3

294.5.3

There were two twin brothers, young and well grown, sons of a Hindu prince called Darumdas (Dharm Das). The mother of the youths died, and their father subsequently married again. As they did not get on with their step-mother, they quitted their father's house and went elsewhere in search of fortune. Fate decreed that they should enter the service of Qasim Khan, and they served him for a year and a half without receiving anything. At the end of that time they presented a petition, begging him to order them to be paid. But, disregarding this application, he put them off with pleasant words for another six months. At last they could endure it no longer; neither they nor their horses could last any further time. They seized the opportunity one day when he was reading the Quran; they entered his darbar, and prayed him most humbly to take compassion upon them. But instead of doing that, he replied: 'Get out of my sight, kafirs!' (that is, 'infidels.') But one of them pricked up courage and, drawing his sword, fell upon him and cut him to pieces.