Storia do Mogor 65.24.8

65.24.8

Most people fathomed the purpose of Aurangzeb. While professing himself adverse to reigning and anxious to follow for ever the observances of a holy mendicant, all he did was out of refined policy, and only to arrive at being emperor. When the opportunity arose, Murad Bakhsh would certainly be destroyed. For this end he worked hard, writing day and night, and sending letters in all directions to every viceroy and governor in the empire. He took counsel with his maternal uncle, Shaistah Khan, a man of great sense, the greatest omarao (umara, noble) that there was in the country. This man was related to the greater number of the nobles, and was the oldest, best known, and best liked of them all. Aurangzeb asked him to write to all his friends in his (Aurangzeb's) favour, and to pursue Dara as persistently as he could. He (Aurangzeb) knew that Shaistah Khan would not fail to aid him, for he hated Shahjahan, and did not love Dara, but acted in every way as Aurangzeb desired.