Storia do Mogor 65.12.6

65.12.6

Aurangzeb grew very fond of one of the dancing-women in his harem, and through the great love he bore to her he neglected for some time his prayers and his austerities, filling up his days with music and dances; and going even farther, he enlivened himself with wine, which he drank at the instance of the said dancing-girl. The dancer died, and Aurangzeb made a vow never to drink wine again nor to listen to music. In after-days he was accustomed to say that God had been very gracious to him by putting an end to that dancing-girl's life, by reason of whom he had committed so many iniquities, and had run the risk of never reigning through being occupied in vicious practices. During the time that Aurangzeb was in the Dakhin a man called Mirzamula (Mir Jumlah), who was a Persian by birth, was the wazir of the Gulkhandah king and general of his army. Mir Jumlah came to the kingdom of Gulkhandah in the service of a Persian merchant, and was in charge of some horses that the trader had brought from Persia for sale to the King of Gulkhandah. Mir Jumlah went through the streets from door to door selling shoes ; but fortune resolved to favour him, and little by little he rose to be a great merchant of much fame in the kingdom. Owing to his being very rich, with ships at sea, also a man of much wisdom and very generous, he gained for himself many friends about the court, who looked after his interest at the king's audiences.