Storia do Mogor 65.40.2

65.40.2

But since there is now no other remedy, by taking my life I put an end to all my pains, and this tyrant gathers in by my death a portion of the spoils intended to grace his triumph.' Speaking thus, she took the poison, which was so potent that as soon as she swallowed it she fell dead. Then her women attendants ran to her, and, seeing their mistress in the last throes of life, they cried aloud. At this outcry everyone ran to see what was the matter. Finding the princess already unconscious, her brilliant colour gone, her eyes suffused with chilly tears, her son and her daughter fell upon her with loud lamentation. At these sounds the unhappy prince Dara arrived and found his princess, Nur Mahal Begam, already cold and quite [250] dead. He was so dejected that he was entirely unable to speak, and quite stunned. He was driven forth by the heartrending weeping of his son and daughter, the despair of the women, and the wailing of the relations.