Storia do Mogor 65.20.4

65.20.4

Some authors, recording what they have been told, say that Dara seized his father and divested him of power by force; but I assert this to be a great untruth, for I know, and have tested, that Dara was quite submissive. He did nothing without communicating it to his father. I might produce several proofs of what I say; but I will ask the reader to do me the favour of recollecting what I have said as to the letters written by Muhammad Amin Khan and Shaistah Khan. On account of these Dara wanted to have them decapitated, yet they were liberated by the order of Shahjahan. If Dara had, as others write, taken possession of his father and of his authority, he would have exercised this absolute power to order their heads to be cut off, as justice required.