Storia do Mogor 85.1

85.1

Among the others who hastened to court after Aurangzeb had been crowned as king was one Melecsale (Malik Salih), a former tutor of Aurangzeb. This man lived in Kabul on the allowance made him by Shahjahan. He waited a little while before he appeared to present his congratulations to his pupil. He knew that at the beginning of a reign it was necessary to leave time for the arrangement of more important matters, and that when Aurangzeb was able to rest from his greater anxieties, he would receive him the more willingly and reward him more bountifully for the fatigues which the teachers of young princes usually have to undergo. Thus Mulla Salih left his home with the prospect of some great reward. Arraying himself in even greater solemnity than is customary to doctors of the Mahomedan faith, he pursued his route until he arrived at Dihli. There he began by paying his court to the amaraos (umard, nobles), invoking each one's aid in working for his interest, so that the king might receive him with greater affection, and endow him the more liberally. Aurangzeb was told of his teacher's arrival, but made no sign, so that in the interval he might prepare himself for a talk with him, through which he might instruct the teachers of his own sons in the course to be adopted in the bringing up of princes. The emperor was of opinion that Shahjahan had not provided him with a good teacher.