Later Mughals v1.c6.s10.13

v1.c6.s10.13

For years past Kam Bakhsh had been noted for a violence of disposition approaching to insanity. The suspicions now instilled into him raised this latent ferocity to the highest point, and as Khafi Khan expresses it "he hacked his own foot with the hatchet of ill-success". Taqarrub Khan and the other conspirators persuaded the Prince into a belief that the constant meetings and hospitable entertainments between Ahsan Khan and Rustam Dil Khan covered a plot of seizing him, (Kam Bakhsh), while on his way to the Friday prayer at the great mosque. If he did not anticipate them, their plans would soon be carried to a successful issue.