Mughal Administration c12.s4.5

c12.s4.5

"Men of all nations, old and young, friends and strangers, the far and the near, look upon offering a vow to his Majesty as the means of solving all their difficulties, and bend down in worship on obtaining their desire when his Majesty leaves the Court, there is not a hamlet town or city that does not send forth crowds of men and women with vow-offerings in their hands and prayers on their lips, touching the efficacy of their vows [made to the Emperor] or proclaiming the accounts of the spiritual assistance received [by secretly praying to him]...His Majesty gives satisfactory answers to every one, and applies remedies to their religious perplexities. Not a day passes but people bring cups of water to him, beseeching him to breathe upon it...Many sick people whose diseases the most eminent physicians pronounced incurable, have been restored to health by this divine means.