Storia do Mogor 65.41.7

65.41.7

Prince Dara, finding his son was sent to Gwaliyar fortress without any mention of himself, recognised that he had only a [few] days to live. He therefore planned to seek [257] the only true consolation for his soul. To this intent, over and over again, he entreated with urgence and insistence that the doorkeepers should somehow or other seek out and bring to him Father Buzeo, a man well enough known. But on the guards paying no heed to his words, he still more urgently besought them to do him that favour, from which, neither to them nor to Aurangzeb, could any harm arise. Supposing they were unable to bring Father Buzeo, he begged them to produce some European priest or another. Finding himself unable to obtain his wish, he began in loud and heart-rending tones to say these words : ' Mahamed mara micuxet, ebenalla mare ian mi bacxet ' (Muhammad mara mi-kushad, ibn-ullah mara jan mi-bakhshad) — that is to say, ' Muhammad kills me, and the Son of God gives me life.' From these words and those he spoke to Father Frei Pedro at the city of Tattah — namely, that if any faith in the world was true, it was that taught by the European priests — and from the pain he endured through not being able to get any priest ; further, from information given me by the self-same door-keepers, from whom I made inquiries with great eagerness and minuteness, it is to be inferred that he (Dara) had a great desire to become a Christian.