History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c17.46

v1.c17.46

Dara's devotion to his father in his illness. “Dara tended and nursed his father beyond the utmost limit of possibility.” But he showed no indecent haste to seize the crown. All urgent orders were issued by him, but in the Emperor’s name.* He exercised supreme authority and transacted public affairs at his own will, but merely as his father’s agent. The transfer of power to his own hands, he hoped, would be easy, and he might wait for his father’s death without any harm to the work of the State. He had so long occupied in the public eye the place at the right hand of the Emperor that he naturally expected that his exercise of authority on behalf of his invalid father would be accepted without question.