Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c42.s2.6
Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c42.s2.6
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∗ *Ibr.* iii. 140. When prince Akbar appealed to his friend the newly crowned Bidār Bakht to relieve the sufferings of his hungry and thirsty children, Bidar replied, "The Empire of Hindustan belongs to my forefathers. During the thirty years that your father has been Emperor, what hardships and sorrows did we not endure? For thirty years we have borne it patiently. Now the turn of kingship has come to me." Row by starving prisoner-princes : *Modave's Journal du Voyage* tr. by me in *Islamic Culture*, 1935. Pester, *War and Sport in India*.