Storia do Mogor 9.2.7

9.2.7

Orangzeb, eleventh emperor, who died in 1707, after a very long reign, left behind him a resounding memory as the man who to gain the summit felled and slew — partly by deceit, partly by force — all his three brothers, and as one who for many a day held his own father a prisoner. Before he became emperor he was of a certain sect of the Mahomedans who style themselves faqirs, and maintained throughout his life an assumed exterior of religion. Thus the artist succeeds in taking him to the very life in the act of reading the Quran, in an attitude full of piety and composure, to which there is not wanting any sanctimonious detail.