Storia do Mogor 345.7

345.7

After prince 'Azim-ud-din had answered his grandfather, he wrote a very bitter letter to Amãnat Khãn, accusing him of imprudence and stupidity in carrying out the royal orders as he had done. He had ignored the ruin that without a doubt must ensue. He told him he was certain he had only acted in that manner in order that for the rest of his life he might be remembered as the man who was praised for doing a service to the king which a prince of the blood-royal had not the spirit to undertake. He swore an oath that not many days would have gone by before he had secured satisfaction from him for such insulting vanity. The letter occasioned the governor so much grief and such profound melancholy that he died in a short time. It must be over forty years ago that I knew this lord's father. His name was Mirec Maiudinn (Mirak Mu'in-ud-din Ahmad); he was diwan first of the Kabul province and then of Lãhor, and, as it seems to me, I have spoken of him there (I. 103). This man, through his services to the crown, was raised to the dignity of Amãnat Khãn, and all his family entered the king's service on good pay. He was a great friend of mine, as, indeed, he was of all Christians, a most affable and kindly man, much devoted to alchemy, and always trying to make gold. Every year he wasted thirty thousand rupees, and yet never in all those years attained the desired result, although always busily occupied with retorts and stills, as is the habit of alchemists.