[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) › 356.3.3 # Storia do Mogor 356.3.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 356.3.3 - **Language:** English ### [356.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.3) Having said this much, he straightway fell to weeping again, and with many sighs went on with his story. 'Last night Muhammad appeared to me and told me I was unreasonable in calling for death, since God had decided that I should live another thirty years. The Creator had thus decreed, and my insistence could not prevail.' The astute king had invented this fable, so that if he fell ill again and was unable to appear in public, there should be no disturbance in the army, they being persuaded that he had so many years yet to live. He never doubted that all his words would be swallowed by everyone, since he knew that the majority of people held him to be a saint and a truthful man. As for myself, I have not a doubt that this fable of Aurangzeb's was rejected as untrue by all the princes. At this audience the traders of Surat appeared again to supplicate his Majesty to get them back the trade which had been stopped by the Dutch, as I have already stated (V., fols. 4, 167). His Majesty ordered twelve lakhs of rupees to be paid to the Dutch, with which they must be content. The Dutch agreed to accept the amount and cease to blockade the trade of the port. They had suffered no loss, having at various times taken possession of several valuable prizes. In this way they had triumphed. - [Previous: 356.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.2) - [Next: 356.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.4) - [Up: 356.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.3) · Pramāṇa