Storia do Mogor 65.25.2

65.25.2

After this speech, Sulaiman Shukoh saw that he could rely neither on the rajah nor on Daler Khan, the rajah's friend. He then consulted his general, Dautcan (Da,ud Khan), as to what could be done in this extremity. This man proposed that, on the pretext of bidding them farewell and imparting to them some secret, they should be sent for together. As soon as they arrived in the tent, they should be then and there slain, and their troops taken over. With their united force they might then march resolutely against Aurangzeb, and wreak vengeance on him for what he had done to Sulaiman Shukoh's father, Dara. If this were done, Aurangzeb could not so easily carry out his purpose. The advice was sagacious, but it was not kept sufficiently secret. The rajah learnt of it through the prince's surgeon, an Armenian by race, called Sikandar Beg, all of which I was told by this very rajah himself (Jai Singh). To carry out the above intent Sulaiman Shukoh, his mind made up and all things ready, ordered the rajah and Daler Khan to be sent for with the accustomed ceremony. But having been warned, they sent him a private and straightforward message that their first answer and the advice then given were enough. It were well that, with all haste, he took the road the rajah had told him of. He must not wait for them, for their coming would be of no use to him.