'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎108] (427/1024)

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Travels in India.
The Great Mogul is without all queftion the richeft and molt potent Mona h
of u 4 Jia ^ the Territories which he poffefles, being his own Hereditary Poffeir
on * and being abfolute Mafter of all the Territories whence he receives h *
Revenues. For in the Territories of this Prince, the great Lords are but th
Royal Receivers, who give an account of the King’s Revenues to the Governou/
of the Provinces, and they to the chief Treafurers and Controllers of the Lx-
C H A P. II.
Of the Sicknefs an^fupposd Death of Cha-jehan, tfhg of India, and
the tie hellion of the Princes his Sons.
HTHis great King had reign’d above forty years, not fo much as a King over
^ his Subjects, but rather as a Father ovef his Family and Children. Info.
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a to put any nj^ to death for Robbery. In his declining years he fancPd
. ^ young Lady of an extraordinary Beauty, that wa? not above thirteen years of
age; ahid beca.ufe.the Rrength of patgre $6$$ n ot permit him to fatisfie his
paflion, he took certain provocatives, whidi were fo hot, that he fell thereupon
into a diflemper thai: had almoft kill’d him. This oblig’d him to Uiut himfelfup
in his Haram, together with his Women, for two or three months^ during which
time he appear d very rarely tp the people, and that at a great diftance too,
which made believe he was dead. For they are oblig’d by Cuftom to Ihew
themfelyes to. the pepple three times in a week, or in fifteen days at mofh
Cha-Jehqg Ipd hx Children, four Sons and two Daughters. The Name of the
ddeft was Dara-Cba. the fecorid was call’d Sultan Sty ah, the third
the fourth Morad-Btkfhe. The eldeft of his two Daughters was call’d Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. -Saheb,
and the name of the fecond was Rauchenara Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. .
Cha-jehan lov’d all his four Sons alike, and had made them Governours or
Vice-Roys of four of his principal Provinces or Kingdoms. Dara-Cba, who was
the eldeft, Ray’d with his Father in Dehly, and had the Government of the King
dom of Sandi, into which he put a Deputy. Sultan Sujah had for his fhare the Go
vernment of Rengala. u 4 ureng-z.eb was Vice-Roy of the Kingdom of Dtcan ; and
Morad-Bakche or the Kingdom of Ckz.erat. But though Cha-jehan endeavour’d to
give equal content to his four Sons, their Ambition was not fatisfl’d with thisdi-
vilion, but ruin'd all the good deligns which fo kind a Father had lay’d to pre*
ferve peace among his Children.
Cha-jehan being thus lick, and retir’d into the Womens quarter, without
fhewing himfelf for many days ; the report ran that lie was dead, and that
Dara-Cha conceal’d his death, to gain time to provide for himfelf, and to fe-
cure the Empire. True it is, that the King believing he fhould dye, commanded
Dara-Cha to call together all the Omrahs or Lords, and to feat himfelf upon
the Throne, which belong’d to him, as the eldeft of his Brothers^ He alfo teift-
fi’d the defire he had to fee him quietly fettled in the peaceable pofTeflion of
the Empire. And this intention of his was look’d upon as the more juft, in re
gard the other three Brothers had been for fome time obferv’d to have lefs
refped for their Father, than Dara-Cha. Dara-Cha, who honour’d andrefpett-
ed the King with a real tendernefs, made anfwer to the King, that he defir’d
of Heaven nothing more than the prefervation of his Ma jellies life, and that fo
long as Heaven Ihould continue that prefervation, he Ihould take it to be a
greater honour to continue himfelf a Subject, than to afeend the Throne. And
indeed he was never abfent from his Father, that he might be the better able
to ferve him in his lickhefs ; and becaufe he would be prefent upon all occa-
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