Storia do Mogor 90.3

90.3

He was to discover the object of this embassy and why he had come. Gifts and presents were not to be stinted, whether to the ambassador or to the five hundred Persian cavaliers who accompanied him. To gain time for finding out the reason of the embassy and the intentions of the ambassador in regard to the obeisances usual in India, he further ordered him to come in leisurely, so that the streets might be prepared through which the ambassador [34] was to pass; he was to bring him to a halt near the royal garden called Xalemas (Shalihmar), distant three leagues from the city. Aurangzeb despatched various nobles on the heels of Muhammad Amin Khan to meet the ambassador. But the latter would not so far state whether he would make the usual obeisances or not, and never disclosed the object of his mission. Aurangzeb insisted on knowing the object of the embassy, and whether the ambassador meant to make the obeisances usual in India. He feared that Shah 'Abbas, supported by Mir Jumlah, Khalilullah Khan, Ja'far Khan, and many other officers, who were Persians, might attempt something in these early days of his (Aurangzeb's) reign. For there still lived several men ill-affected towards him, favourites of Shahjahan, and he wanted to adopt precautionary measures, knowing by experience how much inclined the Persians are to treachery.