Storia do Mogor 65.42.3

65.42.3

Those executioners of tyranny and barbarity arrived at the garden of Khizrabad at seven o'clock at night. They entered the room where the afflicted prince was walking up and down repeating the words referred to: Muhammad mara mi-kushad, ullah mara jan mi-bakhshad. They laid hands upon him, and, showing neither compassion nor respect, flung him to the ground and cut off his head. Leaving the body to welter in its blood, they carried the head with all haste to Aurangzeb's presence. It was then eight o'clock at night, and he was in the garden of the palace. Such was the tragic and lamentable fate [meted] out to the unhappy prince Dara, first-born and heir to the Mogul empire, loved and cherished by his father, Shahjahan, and respected by the people. Neither his good qualities nor his rank sufficed to deliver him from the evil designs of [Aurangzeb], nor from the ill-effects of his own bad qualities.