History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c86.s1.11

v5.c86.s1.11

His private life,—dress, food and recreations,—were all extremely simple, but well-ordered. He was absolutely free from vice and even from the more innocent pleasures of the idle rich. The number of his wives fell short even of the Quranic allowance of four,* and he was scrupulously faithful to wedded love. The only delicacies he relished,—the reader will smile to hear,—were the acid fruit corinda (Carissa carandas) and a sort of chewing gum called khardali.