The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.115
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.115
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c18.115
The king lived in continual terror of the members of his family, 'for on account of the kingdom the father hates his sons, and sons hate their father'.² Jahāngīr long afterwards expressed the same sentiment in the maxim that 'kingship regards neither son nor son-in-law. No one is a relation to a king'.³ Another similar aphorism is that 'princes, like crabs, have a notorious tendency towards eating up their begetter'.⁴