[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) › 356.1.7 # Storia do Mogor 356.1.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 356.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [356.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.1.7) In ten years of this king's reign not more than one man has been killed by his order. It is the habit of these Persian kings when they go to the chase, or travel from one city to another, to take with them their ladies guarded by cavalry and eunuchs. These attendants go in advance of the king, and look about in the fields to see if they can find anyone. Anyone found near the route is made to hide and withdraw until the king has passed. One day while he was marching to the city of Qazwin he came across a peasant under a tree, his face to the ground and his hands clasped over his head, resting there out of mere stupidity. He was noticed by the king, who, recognising that it was ignorance and not evil intent, threw his cloak over him with his own hands, and went on his way. The chief eunuch, who preceded the queens and the women, found the man, took away the cloak, and killed him. When the king reached his tents he asked the chief eunuch if he had found anyone within prohibited limits. The reply was that one man had been found and killed. By the king's order the eunuch himself was killed for want of respect to the royal cloak with which the peasant was covered, it being a plain sign of the royal protection. - [Previous: 356.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.1.6) - [Next: 356.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.1.8) - [Up: 356.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.1.7) · Pramāṇa