Storia do Mogor 370.3

370.3

The prudent wazir so adjusted matters that both princes quitted the army. A'zam Tãrã marched very slowly and the Prince Kãm Bakhsh in haste, being anxious to take possession of the fortress of Bljãpur. Four days after the above disturbance, the king being still in the same state — nay, in the agonies of death — the wazir, being a partisan of A'zam Tãrã, sent that prince a message telling him to return in all possible haste. When he arrived the king was already dead, having died on the Friday. This was one day before the arrival of A'zam Tãrã, which took place on March 4 [1707], an hour after noon. Aware that he was near the hour of death, the king had ordered and eagerly pressed the wazir, Asad Khãn, to unlock the treasury and pay the soldiers all that was due to them. If he neglected this direction, he would have to give answer for it in the presence of God, and in the meanwhile his conscience would hurt him. Thus the wazir, with the consent of the new king, A'zam Tãrã, carried out the order.