History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c39.s5.1

v3.c39.s5.1

With the Powers of Central Asia, Aurangzib's intercourse was more frequent and uniformly cordial. The first foreign embassy that he received after his accession was one sent by Subhan Quli, king of Balkh, which presented him (January and February, 1661) with valuable Turki horses, camels, hunting animals, dry fruits, &c., and received Rs. 26,000 in return. On 19th November in the same year, Khwajah Ahmad, the envoy of Abdul Aziz Khan, king of Bukhara, made his bow and delivered to Aurangzib a congratulatory letter from his chivalrous antagonist of the war of 1647. On the ambassador and his entourage the Emperor spent one lakh and twenty thousand Rupees, besides Rs. 12,000 sent to the Bukhara chancellor. But both the envoys from Balkh and Bukhara died in India from the effects of the very miserly and dirty way in which they lived.