Storia do Mogor 65.8.4

65.8.4

But it seems to me that it was the astrologer's artfulness, for he had a very great friend in the physician who attended the kotwal. It may be that they took counsel together, and he may have had him killed to prove the truth of his reading of the stars. For I have seen many similar cases, and these Hindus, without fear of God and devoid of scruple, do many such-like things out of desire for money. Nevertheless, there is not a great man who has not in his house an astrologer, if it be only to know the right hour for leaving his house on any business, even down to when to put on a new cloak (cabaya). Of this astrologer tribe there are great numbers in the Mogul kingdom; even the bazars swarm with these folk, and by this means they find out all that passes in the houses. Both Moguls and Hindus are so credulous that they put faith in all that these men choose to tell them.