Storia do Mogor 65.40.1

65.40.1

The high-minded but unfortunate Farldun was then seized, but they did not slay him, for it was not fair that such a stout and courageous heart should end so inauspiciously. Finding that Dara had ordered an attempt on his life, Jiwan Khan continued his severities more strictly than ever. He put into prison all the people with Dara, leaving him with none but his family. The afflicted princess, learning that Farldun was taken without effecting his purpose, and already convinced there was not the slightest hope of delivering her beloved prince from the difficulties in which he stood, and aware of the final and crowning disgrace that must inevitably ensue, fell into the deepest desperation. Taking into her hand the poison kept ready for these final and fatal throes, she exclaimed, while sad sighs and torrents of tears interrupted her words : ' O beloved prince ! O beloved sons ! Now are your misfortunes at their height ! Now has the hour come for your lives to end. With your blood the cruelty of Aurangzeb will be assuaged. Would to God that my life could suffice to quench the thirst of this ferret, or that with it I could restore yours, then would not Aurangzeb be so oppressive to you, nor so cruel to me ! What could become of me after such a loss ? Could I survive without sons, without a husband ? Could I endure the deeper disgrace of becoming a concubine to Aurangzeb ? God does not delight in this my evil state.