History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c13.84

v1.c13.84

In the meantime, Abdullah’s agent at the Court of Delhi had bought the intercession of Dara Shukoh and of the Princess Imperial Jahanara. Through them he unfolded to the Emperor the true story of Aurangzib’s manœuvring,—how Abdullah had been tricked and almost slain by treachery, how he had not been given a fair chance of carrying out the Emperor’s orders, how the Imperial farmans had been withheld from him, how Shah Jahan’s kind intentions towards the suppliant ruler had been thwarted, and how an entirely false version of the whole affair had been given in the despatches of Aurangzib. At this Shah Jahan’s righteous indignation boiled over. He wrote a sharp letter of censure to Aurangzib, with orders to raise the