Storia do Mogor 90.8

90.8

He told him how the whole world was scandalized at the harsh deed he had done in cutting off the head of Dara, his elder brother ; and, furthermore, in spite of an oath confirmed on the Quran that he would raise his brother, Murad Bakhsh, to the throne, he had, under pretext of law, caused him to be decapitated. Farther, leaving those things out of the question, he could not resist calling a man barbarous and inhuman who, in defiance of the laws of nature and the inexpugnable obligations due to parents, had seized the emperor Shahjahan, his father. The latter had for many years concealed his son's bad qualities, hoping that age would ameliorate his judgment. But, through lapse of time, he came to know instead that he had a heart more ferocious than a tiger's, more barbarous than any animal's. Among them there were even some who taught men the right way to behave to their aged parents, as could be seen in books on natural history.