Storia do Mogor 65.40.3

65.40.3

I wish my readers just to think of the confusion prevailing then in the house of Jiwan Khan. He could not avoid feeling compassion at such an event. For the qualities of Nur Mahal Begam, a princess of the blood royal, were quite exceptional both in body and in mind. If time had allowed, it is possible that he might have taken pity on Dara, and granted him his liberty. But at this time arrived the hurrying Bahadur Khan eager for Dara's blood, and with a great uproar he and his soldiers entered in search of Dara's person. The latter, hearing all the noise, knew it to be the enemy, and tried to get hold of his weapons to end his life fighting, hoping to fall where his cherished companion had expired. But the attempt was frustrated. In a loud voice Bahadur Khan cried : ' Seize the traitor !' and his luck was such that he could do nothing.