Storia do Mogor 93.1

93.1

When other Mogul kings fell ill, there always arose some trouble with the viceroys and governors, but during Aurangzeb's illness there was no such rising. For, in spite of rumours becoming current that the king was dead, the nobles put no trust in them, fearing that Aurangzeb himself, out of policy, and in order to discover which way each of them was inclined, had set these stories in motion. They knew before this that he was a very acute manoeuvrer, and he benefited now by being so considered. Otherwise there might have happened some great disaster or rebellion in the kingdom, the liberty of Shahjahan being dependent on Aurangzeb's death and the coronation of another king. Thus it is with trickishness; more often the deceivers suffer, but sometimes the habit is of profit to them [41 bis].