[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 347.1.7 # Storia do Mogor 347.1.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 347.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [347.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.347.1.7) ' When the kings of Hindustan, its princes and potentates, or generals, desired to enrol soldiers, for each one whom they required a hundred offered themselves. At the present it takes you three years to recruit a few men. From what does this difficulty proceed, and what fact could tell you more? Yet from the first day in your Majesty's reign all are actors, and generals, but none have any loyalty: the perished and unprovided with arms, famous writers produce nothing and have no employment, the traders or deprived of their goods, and the people The lands of the Dakhin, which are so vast, and like a terrestrial Paradise, are nowadays uncultivated, unproductive, and uninhabited. 'What can I say about the kingdom of Bījāpur, once the of India, and now entirely undone? The city of Aurangābād, founded by your Majesty, and the chief place in that province, \[48\] was devastated by the enemy because it bore your name, and is now like a little quicksilver that disappears suddenly, being at this day no more than a mound of earth. The cause of this ruin was the tax imposed on the Hindus, which was converted into a profit to the enemy, who have done so much harm to the population, and subjected them to such hardships and tyrannies, worrying them on all sides, until the whole land has been reduced to desolation. - [Previous: 347.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.347.1.6) - [Next: 347.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.347.1.8) - [Up: 347.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.347.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.347.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.347.1.7) · Pramāṇa