Storia do Mogor 65.39.2

65.39.2

This was to show the low esteem Aurangzeb had for one whom Dara had prized so highly. Khojah Mushkln was informed that he would receive a bare daily subsistence, such alms being granted, not because of any personal merit, but in return for the two mules loaded with gold coin. Finding himself despised by the king, from whom he had hoped equal favour, if not greater than Dara had accorded, affronted by everyone, injurious words being continually said to his very face, he planned a disappearance into far-off lands, whence never more was he heard of. These instances, and many more written in our story, may serve to teach favourites with what loyalty they ought to serve their prince equally in prosperity as in adversity. The unlucky Dara had barely more than two thousand men left in his company, and with these he resumed his flight for the land of Sind, where he was before, traversing once again all those desert lands and plains, in want of water and of food, and suffering from the extreme heat. These hardships made still less bearable the haste with which, day and night, he pressed onwards in his flight before Rajah Jai Singh and Bahadur Khan, who were trying to overtake him. Thus many of the prince's followers, worn out by such continuous marching, fell to the rear in the hope of getting some rest. But they were set upon by robbers, who plundered everyone and killed many.