Later Mughals v1.c9.s15.14

v1.c9.s15.14

While all these schemes were in progress, the Sayyids stopped at home and were never seen at darbar. Crowds of their dependents and flatterers continued to attend their audiences. But soon it became known that the Emperor had made up his mind to destroy them, and had transferred the office of Wazir to another. By slow degrees the daily crowd of suppliants grew less and less. Nay, some of the very Barha Sayyids absented themselves, and the two brothers and their adherents fell into great perplexity. If things had gone on like this for three or four days longer, they would have been much reduced in strength: in another week or ten days, the Emperor's end would have been gained. But it was not long before the truth leaked out, as to the differences among his advisers, the want of heart in his troops, and the state of alarm into which he had himself fallen. Once more the Sayyids' mart resumed its former briskness, and the throng at their doors became greater than before.