Storia do Mogor 90.2

90.2

Some men further assert with great positiveness that the king had given a secret order to 'Abdullah Beg to send back the Persian ambassador if he did not choose to do according to the customs of Hindustan. He also ordered the viceroys and provincial governors to receive the ambassador with every honour, in order thus to gain his goodwill and to be able to discover the more easily what intentions he had. 'Abdullah Beg started, and went out to meet the ambassador at the Qandahar frontier. Thence he brought him in his company as far as Kabul. From this place 'Abdullah Beg wrote to the king that he had already instructed the ambassador in the practice of the Mogul kings, and that he had raised no difficulties about doing what the ambassadors of other great kings had done, as he had assured him several times. Aurangzeb knew the discretion and power of dissimulation of the Persians. For he remembered the rudeness shown by another Persian ambassador in the time of Shahjahan. He therefore wrote to Khalilullah Khan, Governor of Lahor, that during a feast he must succeed in finding out delicately from the ambassador himself if he meant to make the obeisances after the Indian mode or not. Khalilullah Khan informed the king that the ambassador had given him his word to do them as others did. On the ambassador's arrival within one day of Dihli, Aurangzeb sent Muhammad Amin Khan [the son of Mir Jumlah] at the head of one thousand selected horsemen to meet him and escort him to the city.