Storia do Mogor 85.8

85.8

'Who instructed you to educate a royal prince in that manner? Would it not have been better to teach me in my mother-tongue what you taught me in Arabic? Leaving that out of account, was it not your duty to teach me the customs of the Mogul princes, to inform me that one day I should be forced to take the field, sword in hand, against my brothers, if not to gain a crown, at least to defend my life? Thus you should have told me how to gain friends, to take or besiege fortresses, and fight pitched battles. These are the things you ought to have taught me, but you overlooked the whole of them, I know not why, nor know I whether to charge it to the negligence of my father or to your ignorance. 'If I am under obligations to anyone, I owe thanks to Shekh Mir, whom I might well call my tutor; for he taught me the art of war—a man who gave even his life for love of me at the battle against Dara near Ajmer. If you did not know the military art, you might at least have taught me the methods of governing the people when my father should send me to rule in some province. Thus you might have laid down rules for the equal administration of justice, the way of capturing a people's love, under what circumstances I should be severe, when to humour the nobles in their unruliness and the ministers in their misdeeds, and the [23] method of remedying such irregularities. All this you ought to have taught me, but not a word did you breathe to me of such things.