Storia do Mogor 65.38.7

65.38.7

After the flight of Dara, Shah Nawaz Khan was left under the shade of some trees somewhat distant from the battle-field, believing that no one would interfere with him in such a place, where he was quite passive. For he neither wanted to fight nor to defend himself, nor to fly along with Dara. His great reliance was on his being Aurangzeb's father-in-law. For all these reasons he held that he would not be interfered with. But one who did not blush at tyrannizing over his own father, his brothers, and his sons, would hardly forgive his father-in-law for having allowed Dara into Gujarat and having followed him into the field of battle. For this reason Aurangzeb had given express orders to Daler Khan that, wherever he might find the old man, Shah Nawaz Khan, he should take his life without any compunction. Daler Khan learnt that the old man was at the spot mentioned, and went at once with his soldiers, to whom he gave orders not to harm any of those in Shah Nawaz Khan's suite. On beholding the unhappy old man seated upon a carpet spread on the ground, he hastened his elephant's pace, and when near enough killed him impiously and cruelly by repeated arrow-shots.