Storia do Mogor 63.3.6

63.3.6

They got into the boat and hastened back to court, where the king was waiting for him impatiently to know what had happened. He was so much on the qui vive that he heard the sound of the oars, and with a shout he cried in a loud voice : 'What news, Mahabat ?' The valiant soldier replied : 'My lord, the rajah is already dead.' At this the king was much contented, and made Mahabat a great man in his court, transgressing the rule bequeathed to him by his father that no one should be promoted to great station all at once. He gave the man the title of Mahobet Can (Mahabat Khan)— that is to say, 'great affection.' In this manner this man became in a short time the greatest general at the court of the King Jahangir. He treated the Rajput princes with great friendliness, and succeeded with great skill in attaching them to his interests.