Storia do Mogor 354.5.5

354.5.5

In about twenty minutes he caused four severed heads to appear at the four corners of the royal bed ; they were the heads of Aurangzeb's four sons. Whilst the king stared in horror at such a sight, the magician told him none of the princes would be allowed to reign. Without uttering a word, Aurangzeb waved his hand for him to go, ordering the eunuchs to let him pass out and conduct him home in safety. When the magician had left the four heads disappeared, and for that night the king did not sleep [128]. After having ordered the bedstead to be burnt, he knelt on the bare earth in prayer. Time will show what is to happen, and if God gives me life I shall not fail to draw up a report thereof, and satisfy the reader's curiosity. [I omit the following, which have been already given — viz., the story of Qãzí Mir, his unorthodox treatise with Christian tendencies, and his death in prison (Part IV., fols. 239, 240) ; that of the young man from Syãlkot, who met his death in Ahmadãbãd (Part IV., fol. 240) ; and that of the Capuchin friar at Isfahan (Part IV., fol. 240b). I resume on fol. 136.]