Storia do Mogor 66.3.5

66.3.5

Finding there was now nothing else to be seen to, he ordered his chroniclers to write all his battles, and make recital of his glories — how he vanquished such and such powerful adversaries, with all the events, disasters, and encounters up to his ascending the imperial throne. The chroniclers asked how they should record the causes of his father, Shahjahan, being in prison, of the banishment and death of Shah Shuja', and the deceptions practised on the princes Dara and Murad Bakhsh. The king smiled, and displayed his amazement, and said to them : 'Are you so ignorant as not to know the causes of such obvious and well-known events ? Cannot you see that the Mogul Empire was in complete anarchy through the bad government of King Shahjahan, my father, and his desire to make over the state to Prince Dara, an enemy of the Mahomedan faith ? It was a just punishment for the son to lose his life, he being an idolater, while the king was dispossessed of the kingdom and placed in confinement for being incapable of rule. As for the prince Shah Shuja', he was deprived of the kingdom because by his ambition he laid claim to the throne which did not belong to him. Then, having sought refuge in the realm of another, he tried ungratefully to rise against his benefactor, and by losing his life received the merited punishment for his revolt. In regard to Prince Murad Bakhsh, a man of good qualities and an excellent soldier, I am innocent of his death. It was due to the demands of justice.