Storia do Mogor 65.37.5

65.37.5

In that condition the wretched Sultan Muhammad was left, being treated not as a prince, but as a vile slave. By his father's orders all human communication was prohibited; so great was the rigour used that no one could speak in his presence nor answer any question. Such was Aurangzeb's distrust of his son that he did not allow him to have a barber, or a knife to use at his meals. As a trial of his son's resignation, Aurangzeb sent to ask him whether he would like his wife sent to him, the daughter of the King of Gulkhandah. In a great rage he replied that he begged to be excused from diversions whilst being treated so tyrannically. The rest of what happened in prison to Sultan Muhammad I will refer to farther on, in its proper place (II. 150).