History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c23.39

v2.c23.39

Hedaitullah,—also delivered a loving oral message from the Emperor, and took their leave after getting Aurangzib's consent to the proposed interview. Next day they visited him again with another kind message and many presents from the Emperor, including costly jewels and a famous sword known as Alamgir ('Conqueror of the Universe'), and repeated the Emperor's desire for an interview. But they found the Prince changed. Last evening his confidential advisers had told him that Shah Jahan still loved Dara best and was exerting himself actively to promote Dara's cause, so that the invitation of Aurangzib to Agra Fort was only a trap laid for his arrest. Fazil Khan pleaded hard to remove these suspicions, but all in vain, and he had to return to his old master and report his failure. Shaista Khan must have deepened the Prince's distrust of his father, for he was always friendly to Aurangzib and Shah Jahan taxed him with setting that Prince against the Emperor. On the 5th the grey-bearded Fazil Khan came a third time, with a letter from Shah Jahan protesting against the suspicions as cruel