Storia do Mogor 65.28.5

65.28.5

I noticed that in Aurangzeb's army there was a great deal of secret confabulation with nods and metaphors (a habit very common in Hindustan), such as 'The tiger big with young will soon bring forth,' or, as others said, 'The sick man can never recover.' Thus the intention of Aurangzeb was sufficiently obvious to his people. But in the army of Murad Bakhsh there was nothing but music, dancing, wine-bibbing, and revelry. Still, many friends of Murad Bakhsh, and, above all, the eunuch Shahbaz, pressed on him that Aurangzeb had evil designs; that without a doubt there would be some trickery; they had information from several sources that Aurangzeb was setting some trap for him. But he (Murad Bakhsh), infatuated [204] with the lying words of his brother, and intoxicated with power, paid no heed to such advice, holding the erroneous opinion that his brother's oaths were sincere, and his soft words the daughters of truth.