Storia do Mogor 340.2.5

340.2.5

Here arises a point to be remembered. The judicious and inquiring reader will already have seen what happened to the King Paruoar. All his courtiers were traitors to him except Jufacarkan and Danisbankam (Dãnishmand Khãn). The traitors have died leaving no descendants, a castigation that fell on them from God. Readers have seen also the practice of the King Aurangzeb, and the payment he gave to the traitors who adopted his side in his revolt [242a]. He sent out orders secretly to deprive them of life; as he did to Jīvan Khān who seized Dārā, and to Khalīl[ullah] Khān, who was the cause of his winning the battle, as already may be seen in my First (I. 266) and Second Parts (II. 85). As for Shāistah Khān, he did not kill him, because he was in need of his good advice. Most of them had their lives taken in his (Aurangzeb's) lifetime, while he rewarded the sons and grandsons of those traitors who were in the battle. All of the traitors came to their death with the exception of one — namely, Asad Khān. This man declined to join the party of Aurangzeb, and was sent to his court by an order of Shāhjahān, after his becoming a prisoner, as will have been already seen (II. 14). Thus, of the ancient and noble persons in the empire, all were killed, except a few infants left with the baggage-train.