Storia do Mogor 65.27.6
Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 65.27.6
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65.27.6
Then I'tibar Khan caused many gates and wickets to be built up, posting here and there harsh women guardians in such a way that Shahjahan could neither speak nor write to any stranger, nor come out from the door of his harem to enjoy a stroll in his garden without the eunuch's leave. Even here Aurangzeb's astuteness did not end. As justification for his acts, and to turn away the people from Shahjahan, he prepared a forged letter in his (Shahjahan's) name. It was addressed to Dara, and advised him not to go very far away from Agrah; for already the time was near when he would see his rebellious and inimical brothers slain by the very hands of him whose misfortune it was to be their father, those monsters filled with the basest barbarities. Soon Aurangzeb and Murad Bakhsh would come to visit him; they would enter alive, but never come out on their own feet. They would be carried out by the hands of others bearing them to burial. Then if he (Dara), his faithful and only son, would come to Agrah, he could enjoy and rule over the empire.