'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.' [‎116] (435/1024)

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Travels in I n d i a.
Part II.
For Dara^Cha being Tent from Jehanabat with a Guard to the place fu-
imprifonment; when he came to a fair place where he thought to repnfeV
felf, they drefs’d up the Tent where he was to leave his Head. After he S
eaten, Seif+Kan came and brought him the fentence of his Death. Larin
feeing him enter, told him he was very welcome, and that he was glad to f
one of his molt faithful Servants. Scif-Kan made anfwer, that indeed he h H
formerly been one of his Servants, but that now he was the Slave of Jar
z£by who had commanded him to bring him his Head. Mull I dye then>
Dara-Cha. ’Tis the Kings command, reply’d Seif-Kan, and I am entrufted r
execute it. who lay in an anti-Chamber of the Tent waki
upon this conteft, would have feiz’d upon certain Weapons which had b ^
taken from him, with an intention to have aflifted his Father } but he was
vented by thofe that accompany’d Seif-Kan. Dara-Cha would have made fonT
refinance himfelf, but feeing it was in vain, he only defir’d time for hisdevo C
tions,which was granted him. In the mean time Sepper-Chekour was taken from
him * and while they held him in a tf ory, a Slave took off Lara-Chah Head
' which was carried to Attreng-wb by Seif-Km?. This bloody Tragedy being
thus atted, Sepper-Chekpur was fent to the Caftle Couakor^ to keep his Uncle
Morat-Bakche company. As for the Wives and Daughters of Dara-Cba
they were allotted an Apartment in Anreng-zeb's Haram. J
Chap. v.
How Aureng-zeb causA hmfelf to le declar'd King ; and of the Flkht
of Sultan-Sujah.
A S it is the cuftom at the performance of that Ceremony, for the new King
Ky to feat himfelf upon the Throne 5 there was not much time requir’d to
prepare one, in regard that Cha-jehan before his Imprifonment had finifh’d that
which the Great Tamerlane had begun j which was the richeft and moil magni
ficent that ever was feen. But as the Grand Cadi of the Empire, and Chief
of the Law was to Proclaim the new King, Aureng-wb found himfelf oppos’d
by him. For the Cadi told him, that the Law of Mahomet and the Law of Na
ture equally forbad him to declare him King, while his Father liv’d; befides,
that he had put his elder Brother to death, to whom the Empire belong’d af
ter the death of Cha-jehan their Father. This flout refinance of the CM’did
not a little perplex Aureng-zeb ; and therefore that he might not feem to ap
pear irreligious, he call’d all the Doctors of the Law together, to whom he
reprefented the incapacity of his Father to govern,through Age and many infir
mities, that troubled him ; as for Dara-Ch^ his Brother,he had put him to death
becaufe he was a (lighter of the Law, drank Wine, and favour’d Infidels. Thofe
reafons, intermix’d with threats, caus’d his Council of Confcience to conclude,
that he deferv’d the Empire, and ought to be proclaim’d King; though the
Cadi obflinately perfifled in his firfl refolution. There was no other Remedy
therefore, but to remove him from his Employment, as a diflurber of the
publick Peace, and to chufe another for the Honour of the Law, and • the Good
of the Kingdom. The pcrfbn who was elected by the Council was foon con
firm’d by Aureng-zeb ; in acknowledgment whereof, he proclaim’d him King
the twentieth of October 0 1 660, This Proclamation being made in the Afofwee,
Anreng-zeb feated himfelf upon the Throne, and receiv’d the Homages of all
the Grandees of the Kingdom.
However, Aureng-zeb did not think his throne fall enough, nor himfelf fc*
cure in the Empire, fo long as Sultan Sujah was railing a powerful Army in
Bengala to releafe his Father. Thereupon he fent a confiderable Force again#
him, under the Command of Sultan Mahomed his eldell Son; to whom he ap
pointed for his Lieutenant the Emir-Jemla^ one of the greatell Captains that
ever came out of Per fa into India. His great Conduct and Courage had ten
ur’d him a perfon to be reverenc’d by all pofterity, had he been faithful to